Holy crap. I heard HS2 is expensive, but didn't expect it be so expensive. Here is from AI:

• HS2 (Phase 1): Roughly $800 million to $1 billion per mile (£400M–£500M per km).
• China High Speed Rail Average: $27 million to $34 million per mile

To put that in perspective, one mile of HS2 costs roughly the same as 30 miles of high-speed rail in China.

Finally someone has a sense. I hope the US congress people can hear arguments along yours.

Have you been living under a rock in recent years? lol. The US can simply do anything under National Security. Ban Chinese telcom equipments in US for National Security. Ban Chinese phone for National Security. etc. As long as China do anything better than US, US will continue to do anything to make sure that does not happen.

Exactly. Why would any company commit to any rule that is not required by law?

Tesla only needs to support CCS protocol - it is well defined spec. Much easier thank work with "each EV's particular onboard charge controller".

I don't get your point. "..annoy owners" - which owners: EV owners or ICE owners? ".. someone else gets to pollute more" - who is polluting more? The whole points of EV credit is to get people to buy more EV, and car makers to make more EVs, thus pollute less.