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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 and almost you 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 Scientist. 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 you're estimated

how much that cost was to you the consumer from that 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 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

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