WSJ - Another Roadblock to the EV Transition: Personal Politics

Today, the WSJ wrote about the political divide in perception of EVs. Once again, Mike Murphy and the EV Politics Project were cited as a potential solution to this critically important problem.

In assessing the problem, Mike was direct:

“The fact that millions of Americans are ideologically dug in against electric cars will make it harder for automakers to comply with those rules, said Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist who has been frustrated by his own party’s bashing of EVs. The Detroit native formed a nonprofit to ease the political divide on EVs and consult with carmakers on ways to tamp down the negativity.

‘There is a hearts-and-minds resistance to EVs, mostly on the Republican side,’ Murphy said. ‘If you can’t break down that tribalism, the industry isn’t going to sell enough EVs” to meet the rules.’”