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The technology is available now. Tesla satisfies the high-end. Leafs and Bolts satisfy the mid-range. Chinese econo-boxes for the low-end. 2035 is too far out.

• twblalock 4y ago
  We don't live in a technocratic dictatorship. The fact that a technology exists does not give government the right to shove it down everyone's throats. This is going to result in a voter backlash if they really try to force it through. And that backlash could very easily result in a backlash against climate policy in general, especially if the left follows their normal habit of responding with even more strident moralizing rather than compromising with a more incremental approach.
  • BHSPitMonkey 4y ago
    13 years isn't an incremental approach?
  • copperx 4y ago
    > The fact that a technology exists does not give government the right to shove it down everyone's throats. The government shoves its "moralistic" views down the population's throats. But doing the same with material goods is somehow wrong?
• Someone1234 4y ago
  I'd argue that the technology isn't the problem; the costs are currently the problem. We're now starting to see affordable EVs (e.g. Bolt EV/EUV) but one of the ways they keep costs down is making a trade-off for slower charging making road trips painful (and limiting their mass appeal). And while costs are coming down, demand is also shooting up as multiple countries/areas roll out EV mandates and incentives. The high[er] demand is offsetting low[er] costs.
• crackercrews 4y ago
  What about charging infrastructure? Seems like a state with so many electricity woes could have problems if EV adoption skyrocketed.