In Europe, the price of an EV is on par with a gasoline car right now, and in East Asia, EVs are cheaper than gasoline cars.

Yes, that was one of the main solutions. Better battery management systems including cell balancing helped too.

But you don't get an 8 year warranty either. In general, car batteries seem to keep up much better than expected. With cars like the 1st generation Nissan Leaf having problems with fast aging batteries, there came the impression that this would be a general problem. But nowadays, those problems have been solved, and batteries age much less, and an 8 year old battery electric car like a 2017 Tesla are running fine on their first set.

We even have the reverse problem. With Lithium prices skyrocketing a few years ago (and returning to normal now), lots of businesses popped up to recycle used car batteries to sell the lithium for a profit. Most of those businesses struggle now, because there are not enough batteries to recycle, because they are still healthy and going strong.

So you are saying that the U.S. is severely lacking in charging infrastructure, compared to other countries, even the hellhole countries?

Slovaks don't pay 33% taxes on their electricity, and they don't pay 24% for the grid. Only 42% of the price of electricity in Germany is actually the generation and distribution of electricity.

Baseload is Schmaseload. The main problem with the baseload argument is that none of them bringing it up asks what happens to baseload if there is enough other energy available. Baseload means I can't power it down easily. Baseload means that I have to dump energy somewhere. Baseload means that I have to switch off other, cheaper alternatives because baseload floods my grid. How much time does it need to switch off a solar panel? A microsecond. How much time does it need to switch off a wind turbine? A few seconds. How much time does it need to switch of a nuclear plant? Many hours.

Seems weird to me. I understand why wood sells, muh tradition, but if you go modern you might as well skip to an electric rotating pizza oven. Save yourself the headache of refuelling and baby sitting the pizza from having to deal with the terrible temperature uniformity in a traditional oven.

Makes no sense to build natural gas generators which aren't 100% hydrogen ready though. Costs very little extra and if there is some breakthrough in low cost electrolysis, it can come in handy to use intermittent power in the future.

So German  environmentalist say about renewables ( is that even a word?)  :

"... Germanyâ€(TM)s experience illustrates that early renewable expansion, strong legal targets, and transparent monitoring systems form the foundation for long-term decarbonization. "

There you go again. "Decarbonization" ... compared to: dechocolatization ( no Hersheys? ) or demonetization ( what's in your wallet ) or desexualization ( G*d help us !) ... or ...  I say ... stay the fuck away from my seltzer  or bubbly fruit-drink . 

Unfortunately, I think at least a *part* of it has indeed been the unintended consequences of Obama-era legislation.

From the 70's through the 90's, we had station wagons. They were the family car, along with the minivan. They got 20-30 MPG, and could fit between five and eight passengers, depending on model. In the 2000s, minivans and SUVs became a bit more popular, but the station wagon still existed.

Then, the MPG mandates came. Cars had to get a certain amount of MPG, irrespective of other factors (e.g. not MPG/passenger). A car that fit seven passengers simply couldn't physically make that possible. So, the station wagon died...and instead of getting 30MPG in a car, people got 15-20MPG in an SUV, because they were classed as 'trucks', which weren't required to meet those criteria.

So, anyone who would have *wanted* a smaller, car-like way of transporting larger amounts of people or things, were stuck getting an SUV or a minivan. The squeeze continued, because the sedans that *did* exist had ever-more-stringent MPG requirements placed on them, which tended to involve design changes that reduced cargo space in many cases.

Also, with more and more higher vehicles, driving a regular car means getting blinded at night with floodlights from cars at mirror-level right behind (I *always* have to turn my side mirrors down to the point of uselessness in order to avoid getting blinded by SUVs behind me), and the feeling (irrespective of accuracy) that an accident between a sedan and an SUV involves the SUV walking away with a fender replacement, and the sedan driver ending up in the morgue.

I remember a few years ago, going to California for the first time and taking note of what was driving with me on Interstate 5. California - tree-hugging, forest-fire-having, $7/gallon-gasoline California...3/4 of the vehicles within visible distance were SUVs. Really? *ALL* of them wanted an SUV purely as status symbols, and wouldn't have preferred a station wagon, or something like it, if they were both available and common enough that they felt safe in them? Don't get me wrong, I love getting 51MPG in my Elantra...but you can't tell me that the laws intended to push automakers to make that possible didn't end up putting at least *some* pressure on consumers.

As someone with no experience or qualifications, it sounds to me like he had a gambling addiction. He actually made a substantial profit on Dogecoin, but, instead of getting out then, he spent the money and gambled more.

Meant EV tax cuts.

It's because most countries which aren't Norway are running out of money and are both too scared of losing more revenue from EU tax cuts and the political fallout of raising taxes on ICE's.

It's bad once the gravy train stops.

Neomercantilism doesn't raise all boats, you just have a pretty good time while your boat is loaded down with cheap cars.

Dumping means selling below cost, they are doing the same in China. Involution and all, except they keep wages so small even dumping can't always move the product.