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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by pfdietz on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:55AM (#27061880)
> we can't swap out our fleet fast enough

Average age of a car in the US is 12 years. The fleet gets swapped out naturally pretty quickly, and slight incentives would accelerate that. It's faster than swapping out electric generating capacity.

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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by epistasis on Thursday May 06, 2021 @06:13PM (#27069659)
The other side of that is that we can't ramp EV production quickly enough to cause that swap out to happen any time soon, at least as far as I understand the industry.

If we are at 100% of new vehicles being electric in 2030, I'd be surprised but also ecstatic.

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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by pfdietz on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:54PM (#27070313)
Having EVs dominate new vehicle sales in 2030 would require an annual growth rate of ~50%. This is plausible.
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