The reason is because those that are pushing these technologies (generally liberals) are pushing something that is not economically viable in the open marketplace without subsidies that mean taking from others in the form of taxes to pay for these cars to make them look competetive.

Subsidy means someone else is paying part of the cost. The true cost of running these cars is what you pay as the owner plus what someone else pays as a subsidy through their taxes. When you add those two together, electric is still not competetive and probably won't be until someone discovers how to say increase the energy density of batteries by about 50% or more.

This story is disingenuous. If they had said the cars are competetive costwise without the subsidies, the title would have been justified. The way it is, its propoganda for the liberal agenda.

the whole point was there aren't that many women to speak up.

We let taxi drivers buy half million dollar houses. We're all gonna get our power from solar and wind farms. Everybody's gonna be driving electric cars in a couple of years. Why shouldn't laymen be able to write computer code?