It's a shame the archive links don't display the graphs, Bloomberg's are usually quite informative.

Serious question.

Can you get this money if you instead choose a much better option, like riding the bike or going with public transport?

Or is this only for people who choose cars?

I’m not claiming this to be an entirely solved issue, but the situations in which EVs make sense are already very broad and keep expanding. The city I live in has lantern chargers (admittedly not everywhere), some others are building them into curbs. Apartment parking spaces and garages are getting chargers installed. If you live rurally, chances are high you can install your own.

> Not in rural Europe it isn't. > There is still no widespread charging infra.

You can charge your car at home on a simple reinforced 230V socket. Even city car which should be bad for this purpose have at least 200km of range.

Strangely I’d expect urban centers with apartments and street parking to be the problem.

In the US Electric vehicles are easier for those who can park a car next to an outlet they own. We have a lot more suburbia with people owning their own charging.

This was probably what people used to say about petrol stations.

that's fine; the issues that electric cars are trying to solve in congested urban areas aren't as prevalent in rural areas, where diesel engines are still going to be doing most of the work anyway

> double our energy production

Electrification generally reduces energy use, while increasing electricity use, due to much higher efficiency.

So if you are correct it will only be because you don't produce the energy used in ICE but instead import it after buying it on the global market.

Stick in some solar cells linked to batteries linked to the charger. Given the current trend in prices it'd save rather than cost money soon (5 yrs?).

That’s for the whole economy.

Transport is generally put at - 15-25% increase. Due to both needing less refinement and transport, and just how efficient BEVs are.