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The Problem
While U.S. EV sales aren’t cratering the way some media outlets and personalities claim, it is true that sales aren’t growing as fast as people hoped. We hit the “tipping point” of 5% sales, but the United States just didn’t tip the way other countries did. So, automakers delayed and backed off some, and then the Biden administration backed off a bit on emissions rules to allow more plugin hybrids. Now, we’re in for a much slower climb than anticipated.
But, as Henry J. Kaiser supposedly said, “Problems are just opportunities in work clothes.” But, if we want to fix this…
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