Green Energy Failure: Supply chain issues, financing, fleet-adequate solutions, engineering costs, and inadequate software among roadblocks cited in the survey.
Experts have warned that current infrastructure is not yet prepared for the shift, and to maintain EV charging stations, states may face a worker shortage.
Washington has agreed to be in lock step with the California mandates when the new changes to take effect Jan 1.
There have been other reports of copper thieves targeting EV chargers, including incidents in Houston and Seattle.
The Biden administration's EV mandates will create such a large demand for charging that, to avoid hour-long wait times for EV owners, an additional 166,000 fast DC charging stations will need to be built for a cost of $3.4 billion.
Critics said the EV mandate, as it's often called, is overly ambitious, and that is the problem, pointing out the lack of charging stations, the increased cost to Americans, and arguing Americans should have the right to choose their own vehicle without EPA interference.
The city has plans to install 16 community solar gardens that it says will power buildings with renewable energy and once completed the 16 solar gardens will reduce the same amount of emissions as 1,000 cars.
"The Biden administration doesn't know how to get projects off the ground in a timely fashion. That's just bloated, big government working ineffectively and wasting money in the process,” Gabriella Hoffman, director of the Center for Energy and Conservation at Independent Women’s Forum, said.
On the same day murder charges were announced in connection with the fatal shooting of four people on a CTA Blue Line train, a CTA worker was injured in a drive-by shooting outside Howard station on the CTA Red Line.
A separate survey of businesses that build electric vehicle charging stations found that three out of four can't find enough electricity to make their stations viable.