The Biden administration has made electric vehicles a top priority.

The administration wants half of all new vehicles sold to be electric by 2030.

Some states like California are setting bolder targets, while some other states appear to be

moving in the opposite direction.

Last month, the bill was introduced in North Carolina that can only be described as well,

the most anti-electric car bill to date.

Yeah, it's a pretty wild bill.

I'd be looking at it if you read it almost, you'd think it was fiction or something at first.

That's Ryan Cornell. He's at Arizona State University School of Sustainability. He's got a really

cool title, Senior Global Future Scientists. Here's what he has to say about the North Carolina

Bill. One thing it would do is it would make it so that if you're shopping at some place, you're going to a restaurant, and they provided chargers out front for people to plug in at, it would need to show up on the receipt somewhere, exactly your, you know, estimated how much that cost was to you, the consumer, from that, you know, charger that was out front.

It also would have it so that if you provide chargers, you also need to provide gas stations, which seems pretty much, you know, something that's not feasible.

I don't know of any restaurants that would want to put in a gas station out in front of it.

Electric vehicles are almost, almost mainstream. As battery technology advances and gets cheaper,

and the price of gas goes up, the impediments like range anxiety and costs are beginning to disappear.

Ryan argues that it makes more sense to own an electric vehicle now than ever before.

There are so many advantages to an electric vehicle. It's easier. You don't have to go to a gas station once a week.

You start with a full charge. A lot of the impediments that prevented people

from wanting to get an electric vehicle years ago are no longer there. And so if you're trying

to push back and you're going to try to stymie things, you're going to try to stop the electric

vehicle, this type of antagonizing electric vehicles just for the sake of antagonizing them

might be the most effective strategy.

...