Free access to this WaPo article if you're interested.
Obviously less individual vehicle is better for people and planed, but a campaign focused on getting Americans to stop driving is just plain not going to win enough votes to do one iota of good so it is actually going to do harm at this point.
It provides a nice campaign messaging to help convince people to trade in their fossil fueled vehicles for EVs. Vehicles are the largest polluters in USA now so it is worth considering if you care about that sort of thing.
Take the $56,000 F-150 Lightning. With the standard 98 kWh battery, it offers energy storage equivalent to seven Tesla PowerWalls ($15,500 each installed) for about half the price per kWh. So, for slightly over the U.S. median car price of $50,000, you get a home battery and a car. https://wapo.st/3I4f3ou
@GreenFire
I... don't understand. EVs are not generators, they don't produce electricity (except in the unimportant regenerative-braking sense; but eventually you're at the bottom of a hill).
You can't power your house from your EV unless you're powering your EV from something else. It might in some circumstances be a useful temporary mobile battery, but surely that's a niche?
What am I overlooking?
