The California Air Resource Board (an unelected regulatory body) is pushing for California to join the EU and Canada in only allowing EVs to be sold in the state by 2035. The state (like the EU and Canada) is unprepared for such a change over as it only has about one-third of the necessary charging stations, plus the electric grid is not able to manage hundreds of thousands of EVs all charging at the same time. One of the suggestions is that EV owners should spend several thousands of dollars (on top of the already inflated EV prices) to install solar panel at their homes. At the same time, there is no industry in place to dispose of or recycle either old EV batteries millions of solar panels which are nearing their twenty-five-year life cycle.
Of course, powering all the EVs will require either additional nuclear generating plants, or a vast increase in fossil-based plants which will hardly insure the zero-emission goal for 2035. There are no plans, funding or clearing of environmental lawsuits from numerous special interest groups for an expansion of fossil or nuclear facilities so the practical feasibility of success by 2035 would require a crash program of funding and construction. There is no such talk to support the reality of sufficient supply except for the thirty billion in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act which will have to spread over all fifty states. The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant #2 in Tennessee took forty years to build and two new plants in Georgia have seen their costs rise from fourteen to twenty-three billion ($14 billion to $23 billion).
The linked article points out that “the future is eclectic, not electric.”
https://www.city-journal.org/how-hybrids-can-beat-electric-vehicles-on-emissions
