Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE (auto manufacturers, drivers, mechanics, et al), needs to tell the government to bugger off with their edicts!!!!
They should engage in massive disobedience toward this rule. Just continue business as usual. We all should disobey as well. They can’t put 330 million people in jail.
What about linemen for the utility companies?
They will have to install a LOT more power lines and transformers.
There’s already a shortage of linemen:
Modernizing the grid and an aging workforce drive the need for a new generation of electrical linemen
“Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE (auto manufacturers, drivers, mechanics, et al), needs to tell the government to bugger off with their edicts!!!!”
Nobody does this because the government is the Mafia, but with better retirement and dental. Companies have an operating certificate granted by the government. (Business license, etc.) Banks have a charter. Anyone is intimidated by the power of the IRS. If the IRS seizes your bank account you’re out of business.
What will stop the EV madness is the fact it simply can’t be done. It would require we increase by factors of five to fifteen, the output of things like coper, nickel (Russia is the world’s largest producer BTW). lithium, etc. Let’s not even mention that the power grid is at capacity. That’s why we sometimes get huge regional blackouts. All those electric cars would require a buildout of anywhere from thirty to sixty percent. If something cannot be done, it won’t be done. Relax, pour a drink and watch all of this go away.