Not as cool as this. It seems the internal combustion engive won't go away without a little coaxing. They can't sell an EV without incentives plus artificially raising the cost of ICE vehicles.
"The actions the administration plans to take on the side of raising the price for internal combustion cars include traditional methods like increasing controls on tailpipe emissions, which barely exist in new models these days, and by raising the fleet gas mileage standards imposed on automakers. Requirements like these have over the last 40 years already helped to increase the cost of gas-powered cars to the point at which auto finance companies now offer long-term loans that resemble a home mortgage just to get the things off their lots. Yet, despite all of that, the internal combustion cars remain significantly less expensive than similar-class EVs. Thus, the imposition of further restrictions is in part motivated by the desire to help even out those price tags.
But the administration also plans to impose more subtle measures behind the scenes whose impact on the prices for cars and gasoline will be very real but difficult for consumers to pinpoint as the cause of the sticker shock to come. One such measure is the result of an action President Biden himself already took in the form of an executive order issued in late February ordering his regulatory agencies to raise the standard Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) estimate from $7 per ton of emissions by more than 700%, to $51 per ton."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...-accelerate-us-adoption-of-electric-vehicles/
