While this: " But what is really needed is onerous taxes on fossil-fuel-driven vehicles to reinforce the savings consumers will derive from EV ownership and drive EV ownership up toward the millions of vehicles." sounds 'right', it COMLETELY fails to understand the problem where public transportation not only is poor but actually has societal pressures against(think California and Texas for just 2 well populated states).
Add to that the MANY monetarily poor people who can't afford EV's, don't make enough money to have anything but an older, 'polluting' vehicle and I would hope you would see that technology is simply not anywhere near enough of an answer to the situation.
Here in CA, the State is investigating putting a system into place to scan cars as they pass under freeway overpasses. The scan would use the computer sensors(otherwise known as 'flags on a readout) for emissions controls to determine is something is awry and then, using the id associated with the car's computer(which all the newer vehicles have) send a notice to the car's owner to get it fixed.
The MILLIONs -if not more- this system development costs would be would probably easily provide EV's for all who would turn in an older non EV vehicle but you can bet that such 'socialism' will never occur.
While this: " But what is really needed is onerous taxes on fossil-fuel-driven vehicles to reinforce the savings consumers will derive from EV ownership and drive EV ownership up toward the millions of vehicles." sounds 'right', it COMLETELY fails to understand the problem where public transportation not only is poor but actually has societal pressures against(think California and Texas for just 2 well populated states).
Add to that the MANY monetarily poor people who can't afford EV's, don't make enough money to have anything but an older, 'polluting' vehicle and I would hope you would see that technology is simply not anywhere near enough of an answer to the situation.
Here in CA, the State is investigating putting a system into place to scan cars as they pass under freeway overpasses. The scan would use the computer sensors(otherwise known as 'flags on a readout) for emissions controls to determine is something is awry and then, using the id associated with the car's computer(which all the newer vehicles have) send a notice to the car's owner to get it fixed.
The MILLIONs -if not more- this system development costs would be would probably easily provide EV's for all who would turn in an older non EV vehicle but you can bet that such 'socialism' will never occur.