“Since EVs use emerging battery technologies, they face several significant technical, economic, and social barriers to adoption, limiting EV penetration in the US,” says Pradeep K. Chintagunta, professor of marketing at the Chicago Booth School of Business, who with colleagues.
But the EV industry in the US has had to start from scratch, and Bank of America forecasts that EVs will make upof the car market by 2030, rather than 50 percent. A large number of these vehicles are expected to be “compliance cars”—vehicles built by manufacturers solely as a box-ticking exercise to meet the strictest emission standards in the country, in California.
Besides the politics, there’s a simpler reason that US adoption has stalled while EVs in other countries have taken off. “Historically, there simply haven’t been enough charge points,” says Alyssa Altman, head of transportation and mobility at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, consulting company Publicis Sapient. “Potential EV customers are concerned with keeping their vehicle juiced up for long trips, and for some journeys in the US, the lack of charging stations makes this impossible.
China faces some of the same geographical issues that the US does, including range anxiety, but it has successfully adopted EVs through what Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, director of the Center for Automotive Research in Duisburg, Germany, calls a “leapfrogging effect”: Its automotive industry didn’t have much experience in building combustion engines, therefore it could easily drop them when an alternative came round. That puts Chinese manufacturers in an oddly enviable position.
Doesn’t America lags behind basically everything?
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Yesterday I heard Europe is getting rid of all that vax and masks stuff. They said the USA is way bigger and we haven't submitted like they all did. Yeah, exactly, we are AMERICA where we are still holding onto YOU CAN'T MAKE ME DO ANYTHING = FREEDOM Watch this all go away.
We don't want that junk 😉 How are you supposed to run from your government across the country?
Why do you say it's a problem? It's exactly how Joe Manchin & Mitch McConnell want it to be.