Because they have multiple massive industries, and the people invested in them, doing their best to protect their profits by making sure EVs don't win.
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And the petrochemical megacorps have successfully executed state (as in, a country and its government) capture, which is the secret unlock you get for putting an absurd amount of resources into regulatory capture.
Might have something to do with the con-artist/pedo coalition regime bending over backwards to funnel as much money as possible to fossil fuel oligarchs
Because we're owned by billionaires.
I drive my electric car every day and haven’t been to a gas station in years. Does this sound like losing?
I don't want to ever buy another fossil fuel powered anything! I love my EV! I love my electric mower! I love not having a gas can in the garage for anything!
One out of a million.
The first attempt at EVs from legacy automakers was high margin overpriced cars, modeled around Tesla. Might have worked if the US hadn't Trumped the economy.
The second round of EVs selling big in Europe are smaller and affordable.
Detroit thought EV were just a way to make huge, inefficient oversized vehicles without worrying about the EPA.
But the poor adoption of EVs is because of a lack of standardized reliable infrastructure.
The US produces oil and Petro products, china produces electronics with sources of rare earths, it's all about money and power, not the environment.
Legacy car brands have massive investments in ICE vehicles. They have the manufacturing and logistics figured out and running as smoothly as ever. Now we are asking them to pivot? Do you know what that will do to their short term finances? Decimated. The shareholders will not like that one bit. The tax credits helped soften the blow a bit but instead of making a platform built for EV they had to go and make trucks and SUVs. They could make a small EV, Chevy Bolt was a fine small and efficient EV...nobody bought it. Why? Because it was built like a subcompact economy car with a mid range price tag. Who is that for? Those that can afford it just finance an extra few grand and get a model 3. Those that can't afford it get a 2005 Camry.
The $7500 tax credit was a gift for those that could afford a $40k car.
It's like the legislation was written by the legacy automakers (and oil lobby) themselves to slow EV adoption.
As much as the US is addicted to oil and is an oil state I don't think it really has anything to do with the fact that electric cars are electric that makes them an existential threat to US culture, it is the fact that the entire ideology around building electric cars does not necessarily center cars as the future nexus of all advances in technology and society that makes electric cars by association an existential threat and not something collectively US culture can tolerate without aggressive backlash.