However, with EVs currently representing only about 1% of all vehicles in the U.S., according to the Energy Department, the scale of the challenges ahead is mind boggling.

The Biden administration has laid out an ambitious to-do list. In April it proposed aggressive targets for “fleet average greenhouse gas emissions.” Effectively, this means target average miles per gallon across all vehicles sold by an automaker. The administration estimates these new rules would mean that two out of every three personal vehicles sold by 2032 would be an EV

The Biden administration has committed $7.5 billion to increasing the number of chargers in the U.S., aiming to have stations every 50 miles on U.S. highways. Some in state governments, especially in the West, say that’s unrealistic. But private enterprise is realizing that drivers who have to stop for between 20 minutes and an hour to recharge could be lucrative in other ways—for example by spending money on food while they wait. General Motors and Pilot announced last summer they are teaming up to add 2,000 fast-charging stalls to 500 Pilot and Flying J stops across America

EVs can have the same kinds of software problems as computers and phones