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Electric driving: At a Tipping Point or Stuck in Byzantine Pricing and Charging?

  • 1.  Electric driving: At a Tipping Point or Stuck in Byzantine Pricing and Charging?

    Posted 08-22-2022 11:14 AM
    The federal Infrastructure bill and the Climate Bill will provide plenty additional funds and incentives towards electric driving. What could possibly go wrong? This article discusses the many remaining hurdles and design challenges. It also concludes that electric cars are not enough to meet the challenge of lowering the transportation contribution to climate change per the 2030 Challenge.  


    Electric driving: At a Tipping Point or Stuck in Byzantine Pricing and Charging? 

    Why are there so few electric cars on the road in the US, no matter how expensive the gas, or how climate is on people's minds in a summer of relentless fires, flooding, code red air quality alerts and heat records?  Why are some politicians talking about gas tax holidays instead of getting more EVs on the road? Good questions!

    One of the few EV advertisements:
    Creative but unavailable

    The US has now a share of 5.6% electric vehicles, not a large number but some decsribe it as a tipping point from where numbers will go up exponentially. It remains to be seen if the "Inflation Reduction Bill" will boost that growth. Compared to last year EV sales increased over 80% compared, impressive only if one forgets how low the base number was. 

    But the road towards exponential growth and success is not guaranteed. Too many obstacles remain, we will address a few of those here, some require creative urban planning and new design.  READ FULL ARTICLE HERE



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    [Klaus] Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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