Biden seeks to accelerate the EV transition in biggest climate move yet

[jneffer]

Oh for sure. Totally regressive tax, that's why I said the billions in taxes be used to give low income people huge subsidies, depending on income and how much they drive. Also make it available only for purchase on lower-end evs.

Car manufacturers would love this as it would jack up sales and enable them to better judge the transition.

We use 370 million gallons of gas a day. Getting .15 or .20 more cents, all the way up to a dollar more per gallon in a few years is a crap ton of money for subsidizing new ev sales, as well as improving roads and upgrading the grid and charging infrastructure.

the best answer is getting away from the gas tax altogether and establishing a mileage based user fee

as fuel efficiency increases and e-vehicle use increases, we'll be using less and less gas. meanwhile, infrastruture and maintenance costs never go down...which means more and more increases to the gas tax will be necessary, which is just not politically feasible

make it a user fee, based on some kind of vehicle classification so you pay regardless of what fuels your vehicle

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

Storage is the issue everywhere. India is putting a massive amount into green energy power, but still has plans to build more gas and coal plants. Their Prime Minister said a few months back "Find an affordable way for us to store solar power and we will never build a fossil fuel plant again."

In 2023 Tesla Energy deployed approximately 15 GWh of BESS, battery energy storage systems. Telsa’s 2030 target was 1500 GWh deployed…per year. That target was from May 2022. May have changed since.

 

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