economy and one that tackles climate change.” A brand new Chevrolet Bolt EVU sits on the sales lot at Stewart Chevrolet in Colma, California. transportation sector to a clean electricity future, one that is better for our health, one that stimulates the U.S. “These two pieces of legislation are 100% laying the groundwork for transforming the U.S. “We’re shifting in a way we’ve never shifted before,” she said. Baldwin said the federal action signals an end to “yo-yo, on-again, off-again” policy on electric vehicles.
“We are living through a historic moment in terms of federal leadership on climate and clean energy technologies,” said Sarah Baldwin, director of electrification for Energy Innovation, a nonpartisan energy and climate policy think tank. And far from offering a single electric model here or there, many automakers plan to go mostly electric over the next two decades.īetween 20, charging stations for plug-in electric cars more than tripled, according to Pew Research, though that infrastructure has generally remained clustered in large metro areas.Īnd the billions of direct electric vehicle charging infrastructure funding for states in the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law and the array of tax credits in the more recent Inflation Reduction Act could supercharge that trend. automakers like Ford and Chevrolet are jumping with both feet into the EV market, vying with the likes of start ups like Rivian for a share of the lucrative pickup market. The commercials for electric versions of their best-selling trucks blanketing airwaves show major U.S. That’s one of the reasons why growth in electric vehicle sales was sluggish for much of the past decade, industry experts say.
And those charging stations weren’t coming until more drivers switched to plug-in electric vehicles. carbon emissions, couldn’t happen until the infrastructure to allow drivers to recharge wherever they were heading was in place. Mass adoption, seen as critical to cutting the largest single source of U.S. For years, electric vehicles posed something of a chicken-and-egg problem.
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