Bob. You are putting the cart before the horse. So are our politicos. There is currently no viable alternative for fossil fuel. The total incoming solar energy per square foot just is not enough, no matter how efficient solar panels are or going to be. The solar constant has been the same for millions of years with fluctuations due to sun spots etc of around one %. Thats it. On the wind energy side of things, You will have a tough time when you tell your boss that you cant come to work today because there was no wind last night to turn the fan that shares your car. Or you cant watch the second half of the football game because the wind died down. It will be a huge undertaking to create the infrastructure and upgrade the national grid if a large percentage of the population would buy into EV's. We would have to build a bunch of power stations Nuclear or fired by fossil fuels to meet that demand. There is no free lunch. Australia, china and some parts of Africa are the sole places where the stuff is mined that makes Lithium Ion batteries tick. You won't find a pound of the stuff in American soil. Till that is all figured out and most of all built and paid for. Stick to a vehicle with an internal instead of external combustion engine. Presently we need 20 trillion bucks to be called flat broke. soon, the country will not be able to even pay the interest rate of that mountain of debt the government has ridden us into and the whole apple cars will tip over. Now they are sating more money to upgrade the federal fleet. The mind boggles. This is a gadget that we can still almost afford .... get yourself one before people find out about it.

Its just being realistic Fin. That slight sprinkle of sarcasm here and there does not make my points less valid but I need that or I will have an onset of sanity.

Another point to be made. Would anyone like to concede that to install enough solar panels on a 3200 SQFT home and a battery bank and everything else needed to be off grid would cost $50,000. ??? I know what it cost. Someone want to give me that point?

I will concede that right now, today, there is no viable complete replacement for fossil fuels. There are a lot of ways to reduce the amount we use though, and eventually there will be a viable replacement. How long it takes to get there is going to largely depend on wether or not the majority of the population is willing to try to get away from fossil fuels. Maybe it’s electricity, maybe hydrogen, maybe something we haven’t even discovered yet but there will be something better if we are willing to try.

Lets be honest here, the whole reason Biden is doing this is a feel good and appease the reality deprived left move.

Same as eveytime you hear about how they apoint some transgender or woman or person of color to some position. The symbolism of what they do is the most important thing, not the end result.