Yea, but at the same time the laws are just…performative?

If people don’t want to buy EV’s, no law requiring the sale of a certain percentage of them will actually stand – they’ll either push back the date, remove it, or cause massive economic harm in their own state as people go and spend five-figures in nearby states.

Like stop the performative shit, and make the state EV-friendly. But that’s harder and requires work and doesn’t generate big headlines, so it isn’t done.

We’re having a debate in our state with EV mandates – we have stretches of roads >250 miles without a single even slow charger on them. The state keeps funding single-plug stations, which are then crowded or go down. Our vendors in some cases are >2 years late on installation of the chargers, and the state is like “well, we still trust them” and don’t terminate the old contracts, and keep giving them new ones.

THAT is what’s holding up EV adoption. People, politicians, DOT, etc actually putting in the groundwork to make EVs viable and beneficial to huge swaths of their populations. Not silly mandate bills. If at 2030 they mandate 100% EV’s and in 2029 they’re only selling 25% EVs, do you really think this bill is going to stand? What in this bill forces dealers and others to push EVs to try and make the transition happen? Literally nothing. Performative.

Yup. I have a Rivian.

Still few enough fast chargers that I have to check their availability before I go (and a crucial EA station is completely inoperable right now! Only one in that area, but I can plan around it now that I know). When Tesla opens up, problem solved.

But man, if the Rivian could hold its charging curve better (200kW for longer) consistently, that would be absolutely great. 5 minutes longer doesn’t seem like much, but even browsing the web, if you got a family of six in the car, 5 minutes of dead time feels a lot longer than it actually is.