So you want "free" government built, maintained, and supported electric car charging stations. What should they charge then? Would it be allowed to be less than the existing privately-owned charging stations? Or maybe more to help pay for upkeep and to pay the taxpayers back? Will they compete with private stations or be required to charge more? If not, what incentive will there be for private networks to expand?

Will the power they sell have the same subsidies that private stations currently enjoy at the expense of residential domestic rate-payers?

Who compensates the other drivers who can't afford to buy a new electric car? Or would there be another big whack of means-tested welfare like so many we see now? At what point will those pinched in the middle between rich and poor say No More?

Sounds like the same kind of magical thinking that gets us into one mess after another.

A more serious start at addressing the problems would be to ban guzzling danger wagons. First make all privately owned diesels illegal to register or insure. Companies and farms would need to show a legitimate reason annually. Next ban all privately owned gasoline vehicles that get less than, oh, say 35 MPG average. Same exemptions (with proof) for commercial and farm vehicles. Give them 3 years to comply, then relent and give 2 more years. Then game over.

In the interim perhaps electric or hybrid alternatives that can meet those efficiency floors might have a shot at gaining a foothold. Of course along with smaller, lighter, safer-with-few-behemoths-on-the-road gasoline vehicles until the time they can be phased out too. it should get safer for cyclists as a bonus.