the battery car push is about public transportation
most will be on the bus
not in a battery car
As soon as they finish the corral for the unicorns, they can get right on the "renewable energy" grid.
Democrats are the party of socialized misery.
....While setting aggressive goals for electric vehicle market share, the Biden administration also wants tariffs and or restrictions on the importation of vehicles and the minerals needed for their batteries....
Like nearly all anti-ICE-EV advocates, the bidenites are dumb-dumbs, who get into a catch-22 situation—no ICEs, but not enough resources to replace them with EVs!
Stick with ICE vehicles (and improve them) until the MITs of the world come up with REALLY better solutions!
>His argument centers on the lack of planning and systems engineering on initiatives that are politically, not engineering, driven.
Bingo.
And the details in this article don’t even begin to address lack of electrical generation capacity nor shortcomings in the transmission and distribution grid to support a too-fast non-market-driven government-regulation-forced transition.
It is not going to end well.
The same battery resources used to make one EV can be used to make 4+ plug-in Hybrids.
Some one calculated there isn’t enough known deposits of Lithium to make batteries for all the EVs in the US, let alone in the rest of the world.
“Getting to where we need to go”
Well, actually we don’t need to go there so it’s all just of bunch of bullish!t. The market will eventually win out.
And the biggest corporate beneficiary involved in domestic lithium mining is... (drum roll please)... Exxon/Mobil!