Electric vehicle sales have doubled over the past year, accounting for about 5% of new vehicle sales in the United States in the first quarter of 2022, compared with about 2.5% in the first quarter of 2021. General Motors committed to stop producing gasoline. powerful vehicles by 2035, with other automakers setting similar goals. Ford Motor is producing an electric version of the F-150 pickup truck, the country’s best-selling vehicle, and has already received more than 200,000 pre-orders from customers.
With the cost of solar and wind power falling below coal and natural gas prices in many parts of the United States, renewable sources now account for 20 percent of the nation’s total energy, up from 15 percent a year ago. decades ago.
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But the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, combined with the war in Ukraine and the Russian oil ban, has scrambled for global energy supplies, and prompted President Biden to approve the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and urged manufacturers to pump more oil, at least in the short term. Clean energy producers in the US also face significant obstacles from an outdated power transmission system.
And the private sector is not moving fast enough to cut emissions to the level that scientists say is necessary to avert climate catastrophe. Mr. Biden wants half of all new cars sold in the United States to be electric by 2030, and all electricity to come from wind, solar and other zero-carbon sources by 2035.
“We see a strong trend emerging in the private sector, both driven by consumers demanding cleaner options, which is driving a shift in their energy mix. me and towards electric vehicles, but that rate of change is really not enough to meet the long-term – periodic goal,” said Sasha Mackler, energy analyst at the Center for Bipartisan Policy, a research organization in Washington, said. “To do that, you still need policy. The government doesn’t have the right tools to get us all there. Success in the time we need it, according to the scientific community – it takes Congress.”
Congress in the coming weeks could still pass a scaled-down version of the spending bill that has been stalled on Capitol Hill for months. A version of the bill passed by the House of Representatives last year includes $300 billion in clean energy tax incentives for manufacturers and buyers of clean electricity and electric vehicles.
