The popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) has never been buzzier. Across the U.S, EV sales jumped by two-thirds last year to over 807,000 cars, according to Wall Street Journal reports. Fully electric vehicles now make up 5.8 % of all cars and light trucks sold in the US, up from 3.2% just a year earlier. Options for EV buyers are increasing as well, as Ford, Hyundai, Kia—along with startups including electric pickup maker Rivian — edge in on turf long dominated by Elon Musk’s Tesla.
But the EV revolution isn’t happening fast enough to satisfy everyone. “We have to take combustion-engine vehicles off the road as rapidly as we can,” then-candidate Joe Biden said in 2019. Since taking office, Biden has made the shift to electric vehicles one of his top environmental priorities.
This piece originally appeared on the New York Post
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James B. Meigs is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a City Journal contributing editor, cohost of the How Do We Fix It? podcast, and the former editor of Popular Mechanics.
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