Biden, a self-proclaimed American “car guy”, was there to tout electric vehicles, a key component of his administration’s trillion-dollar-plus infrastructure proposal. At the beginning of the year, electric vehicles made up less than 5% of automobile sales in the US. The administration wants to become less dependent on foreign countries for manufacturing electric vehicles and the parts that go into them. Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, another Republican who opposes government spending on electric vehicles, told the Guardian electric vehicles are prohibitively expensive. Even with a huge investment in electric vehicles, transitioning to where combustion cars are the minority on the road and electric vehicles are the majority will take time.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2021 09:56 UTC