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[quote=Anonymous]It's a decade away. Doing this encourages car makers to invest in EVs, especially at the lower end of the market. So the EPA says "yes in 10 years, if you want to, you could ban gas combustion vehicles" and the auto industry works to prepare for that possibility. But if EVs are still only 50-60% of the market in 10 years, they'll kick the can down the road again. There is zero commitment here.

States aren't going to be able to prevent you from buying gas cars unless the market has made them obsolete. Which could happen -- as EVs increase in share, the infrastructure for them will increase. And if gas prices rise at the same time, market incentives will push more and more people to EVs. The interest is already exploding even though it's still a fraction of the market -- they've moved from 4 to 14% of the market in only a couple years.

One key reason we need to plan well in advance for this shift is that road infrastructure is still heavily funded by taxes on gas purchases. I work in public infrastructure and this is a major topic of conversation, especially in states like California where the percent of EVs on the road has risen faster than in other places. States need to be able to plan for budgeting in the long term and clearing a regulatory hurdle like this can make it easier to build projections. Right now EVs are still subsidized because they are trying to build out the market, but they want to get to the point where rather than subsidizing them, EV owners pay into the system the same way drivers of gas vehicles do.[/quote]

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