A dozen U.S. states, from California to New York, have joined dozens of countries, from Ireland to Spain, with plans to ban the sale of new cars with an internal combustion engine (ICE), many prohibitions taking effect within a decade. Meanwhile, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in a feat of regulatory legerdemain, has proposed […]

Rarely has a government, at least the U.S. government, banned specific products or behaviors that are so widely used or undertaken. Indeed, there have been only two comparably far-reaching bans in U.S. history: the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the consumption of alcohol (repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment); and the 1974 law prohibiting driving faster than 55 mph. Neither achieved its goals; both were widely flouted, and the first one engendered unintended consequences, not least of which was criminal behavior.

  • Masterofballs@exploding-heads.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So far, 90% of EVs in the U.S. have been purchased as a second or third car by wealthy households with a garage.

    This is a good point. When I was right out of college and in apartments and bought my first car a electric car at the same price would not have been a option because there was no where to charge it. Rebuilding all those apartment garages with chargers would be to expensive. It needs to be charged over night slowly to make it last long.

    You could live on a RV camp site in a electric car with a gym membership to shower. That is something I would have done if there were good options at the time. Some can be had for 20$ per night so around 600 per month but they go as high as 44$ per night so around 1,320. Which is about what a typical apartment cost in a normal working class city.

    An electric car was not an option for me until I had a house, married, saved up for a whlie and was in the market for a second car basically to drive my kids around. It was either a model y or a mini van.