GM, travel operator Pilot to develop EV charging network

As for cost, electric passenger cars will soon be no more expensive to own than gas-powered ones, which is great; but alternative fuels are still quite expensive, which isn’t great. We need innovation to bring those prices down.

So to electrify America’s fleet of trucks, freight companies would have to shift to vehicles that carry less cargo, stop to recharge far more often, spend hours of time recharging, and somehow travel long stretches of highway where there are no recharging stations. It’s just not going to happen anytime soon.

States can replace the lost revenue by charging EV owners an extra fee when they renew their license plates—19 states are doing this as I write this chapter—though it means it’ll take a year or two longer for EVs to be as cheap as gas-fueled cars.

(That said, electric vehicles are greener than those powered by fossil fuels even when charged with electricity from nonrenewable sources. That is because power stations burn fuel far more efficiently than car engines do and therefore produce fewer emissions per unit of energy produced. This remains true even when transmission losses are taken into