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Actually, all the static from the UAW and Biden, not to mention Missy, is absolutely influencing everything. I don't see any other company other than Tesla that is able to break the 50% EV conversion in 9 years. There might be some Chinese companies that can individually do this but I highly doubt a lot of them will export to the US in large enough quantities to be meaningful. You can't count anything with hybrid in its name as being an EV so Toyota won't be anywhere near 50% BEV. I really don't see the costs of EVs coming down except for tiny cars from China. I also don't see any EVs other than Tesla and the Bolt/Volt/whatever lowering their prices right now. Tesla isn't.UAW, Wall Street, and the US Government don’t really have a ton of influence over this.
The cost of EVs is coming down every year. The Cybertruck is one of the big examples of this, a $50k electric pickup was ludicrous when it launched and many still think the idea is ludicrous, but it is coming. The cost and convenience of running EVs is way lower than ICE vehicles already and the gap is only increasing.
As more and more companies start making EVs, cost pressures and economies of scale will only increase. ICE vehicles are at their peak, EVs are only going to keep getting better and less expensive.
The amount of time where ICE and EVs are sold side-by-side is going to be fairly short.