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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maryland is so stupid for joining this. The only thing that is going to happen is that used cars will get more expensive.[/quote]

EV market is changing quickly. The 2025 Chevrolet Equinox is priced at $25,500 and that price is based off the battery price of 2024. In 3 years EV will likely be 25-35% cheaper vs comparable gas powered cars with a range of 400 miles. EVs are really easy to build and nothing sell cars like price.

If you are a never electric think of every EV on the road as reducing the demand on gas and lowering price per gallon for you.[/quote]
Doesn’t matter if the charging network is not there and repair and insurance costs remain high (any damage to battery pack from minor accident can total the car).

It is not clear to me why Democrats are so fixated on choosing technology instead of setting standards and letting the market find the most efficient technology.

This sort of market coercive policy will always be a failure under capitalism.[/quote]

The market hasn't found much more significant efficiencies or improvement in gas-powered cars in decades.  In terms of efficiency, electronic fuel injection and control systems beginning in the 1980s, in terms of emissions, the catalytic converter in 1975.  Beyond that, it's been very minor improvements of a few percent here and there for the last 40 years.  It would take a totally different ICE technology like the Astron Aerospace Omega engine to make any kind of new breakthrough - and it could take more than a decade or more to actually see it go from prototype and concept into any kind of meaningful production.

EVs are shattering barriers and seeing massive double digit plus percentage improvements all throughout their systems year after year.  That technology is booming.[/quote]

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