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Originally Posted by chassis

EV backing is from car companies, not governments.

EVs = higher profit per vehicle for car companies. The auto industry is investing tens of billions, today, to transition to majority EV production.

Debate over saving the earth, tax dollars or charging infrastructure are distractions. Watch where the auto industry is putting its capital investment.

Nah. 1990 CARB legislation for low emission vehicles led GM to develop the EV1. Carb LEV led to create a startup called Tesla (before Elon took it over). LEV-2 moved Honda to create the hydrogen-powered Clarity. Energy legislation in 2005 created the first round of plug-in hybrid and EV tax credits. The EPA allowed California to be able to enact its own emission standards and allows any other state to piggyback off of Cali. All EV development has basically gestated in and evolved out of California. Anything to do with EV and plug-in hybrid by the Automakers has been in reaction to Government legislation here in the USA and worldwide. With Governments worldwide enacting legislation to ban internal combustion within the next 15 years or less, auto makers have no choice to jump on the ban-wagon. Electric cars are not more profitable to make than ICE; if they were, ALL EV would have pricing the same OR lower than current ICE. The EV battery will remain cost prohibitive to produce EV on the price-level of ICE and gasoline/diesel will remain cost competitive with EV and be more convenient from range and recharging aspects. Switching to the mystical magical solid-state battery will not improve the production cost curve nor the recharge time anywhere in the next 2 decades.

The modern EV was explicitly created in the belief they would reduce GHG and help solve the theoretical climate crisis. The evidence is in the legislation enacted by California, the US Congress, and the EU.

Your statement is disingenuous. Sorry.