Assuming that natural demand for these cars doesn’t reach 14% of the market, then what will happen is that car makers will subsidize their sale - which they do now. So every non-zero emission car (which likely include natural gas and hybrids) will cost more that they should, to help increase the demand for electromagnetic fields.
I’m not sure exactly who they government will force this mandate on, though. Do car manufacturers have to ensure that 14% of their cars sold are zero emission? What if they don’t make zero emmission cars like Porsche or Ferrari? Or does each car dealer have to do it? And what happens if they can’t? Do they just lower the price on those cars until they create demand, no matter how punitive it may be?
I wonder if this kind of law is even constitutional. How can consumer demand be enforced? How can you force someone to sell something below cost?
And is it even wise? I am frankly afraid to drive around inside an electromagnetic field all day. Am I out of line to worry about that?
Well let’s see. Obama will force coal, oil and nuclear to go out of business. The feds will force us to buy curly-fry lightbulbs and platinum medical insurance. The state of California will force us to buy electric cars that won’t have anywhere to plug in.
Canada’s starting to look really good to me.
I’d think the interior of an electric car to be fairly well shielded from the fields created by its internal motor/generators. It would end up wiping tapes and disk drives if it wasn’t.
It probably is not hazardous in that fashion. It just ain’t practical even with the best storage systems known to man (the lithium ion battery).
Of course California nuts and flakes want to drive prices all wild, and then try to contain the black/grey markets that result (like trying to nail Jello to a tree).
I don't think there's much to worry about. We're all immersed in electromagnetic fields constantly.
You’ve gotta keep the electromagnetic field inside the electric motor. Otherwise its efficiency would fall to nothing.