[Efthreeoh]

Originally Posted by Viffermike

Your conclusions are hogwash. Those cities that have banned cars have done so only to promote small pedestrian-only social, tourist, and/or shopping areas or traffic-free university campuses and have done so to regulate congestion and enhance safety in master-planned gentrified areas. No U.S. city operates like, say, London because they can't.

While China is pacing EV development and production, U.S. cities do not suffer from many of the same issues that China's does -- and that includes government regulatory intervention. What China's central government says, goes, without opposition -- and that government has the capital resources to make whatever it says happen. What the U.S. government says only goes after years upon years of debate, negotiations with affected parties (i.e., companies, civic and state governments), elections, popular sentiment, etc. Only an abject fool would compare what China feels it needs with what the U.S. feels it needs.

As I've mentioned in other posts, explain to me how a farmer or rancher in rural Texas can use an EV. Similarly, explain to me how a farmer or rancher in Hunan Province can use an EV -- or one in Uzbekistan. Or Vietnam. Or most of India. Or The Gambia. Or the Ukraine. Or Brazil. Finally, explain to me how, say, a school teacher can use an EV in any nonurban area in any of the above countries. Shall I go on?

I share the sentiment of Efthreeoh but for different reasons. States are clamoring to test EVs and autonomous vehicles because it's politically expedient right now to gain public favor as well as post-industrial commerce. Once the 'real thing' becomes possible, however, the rat's nest of implementation will hold it up for years, if not decades -- unless, of course, the U.S. has turned itself into a socialist entity like China or, say, Norway, which is highly, highly, HIGHLY unlikely.

I'd like to provide a real world example of this. The US Government declared cigarettes a health hazard almost 55 years ago (IIRC the first Surgeon General warning labels were introduced in 1965), however the Federal Government has yet to ban cigarettes. The Federal Government will never ban cigarettes. The Federal Government will never ban the privately owned and operated automobile.