US automakers pledge huge increase in electric vehicles

[JohnSJ]

5. I am not sure all electric is ready yet. The limiting factor will be the infrastructure. The grid

will have to be upgraded, and adequate charging stations need to be built along the freeways.

Within your home area level 2 charging should be adequate, but when traveling long distances dcfast charging is the fastest charging time, about 15 to 20 minutes to charge a 300 mile electric range car to 80%. A challenge though is regular DCfast charging usage will degrade the battery much quicker over time than a level 1 or level 2 charging, and the batteries are not cheap to replace.

Just taking California alone, it may need as many as 25000 dcfast charging stations in the next 5 years to support 5 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030.

As of March 2021 there are about 41,400 EV charging stations in the U.S., according to the Department of Energy. Fewer than 5,000 are fast chargers.

The other limiting factor is cost. Until the price of electric vehicles comes down to the cost of ICE, without subsidies, I think the electric car market will be mostly limited to the more affluent.

Another question that needs to be addressed is how are the batteries recycled and disposed of.

I think ultra low emission hybrid type vehicles will serve as transition vehicles until the issues above and more are resolved.

Producing 50% all electric vehicles by 2030 is going to be tough to achieve. We are talking eight years from now.

but we have to start somewhere. We are already four years behind because of trump