Other than a political regime change, there is nothing new under the sun. Just little incremental improvements in battery technology. It takes a very long time to move the technology forward without doing more damage than we already do. It takes on the order of 30 years or more to implement real paradigm shifts in topics like power and transportation.
I was forced into many automotive and transportation projects when GM took over Hughes Aircraft. They got their victory with the GM Sunraycer in the solar powered race across OZ, and touted this to get environmental brownie points.
Like many things we hear about from automotive corporations and governments, this was just another useless publicity stunt that didn't benefit mankind, save the planet, or change transportation. Wall Street, Madison Ave, and Detroit all patted themselves on the back and applauded each other.
We then gave them the electric drive technology that lead to the EV1 and then the EV2, which they later killed off themselves. That didn't save the planet or revolutionize transportation either, even if it did lead to what we have now. If you start the clock when some of us took the hard look at batteries, motors, and the grid in the light of CAFE Regulations and Policy Goals to get off of petroleum, it was more than 35 years ago. That math hasn't changed, but we sure nailed the predictions in terms of the growth in energy demand. Instead, we laid off physicists at the National labs and stopped clean power plants from being built. Anyone remember what got Grey Davis recalled in California??? Blackouts ring a bell?
https://www.hughesscgheritage.com/sunraycer-the-gm-solar-powered-car/
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/10/we-should-thank-the-gm-ev1-and-its-death-for-tesla/
http://www.ev1.org/
When unethical politicians and corporations get into the mix, the planet and humanity looses.
Batteries store energy, they don't create it. Transportation legislation is not going to make a dent in saving the planet from Greenhouse Gases by forcing the citizens into EV cars, it is actually doing the opposite in terms of causing alternate types of environmental damage as well as threatening to create a depression.
https://afdc.energy.gov/files/pdfs/argonne_phev_evaluation_report.pdf
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/55638.pdf
You don't have to be very good at math, economics, or science to see that the 50 year horizon is the plug in hybrid (PHEV) and not the all electric. Notice that GM pulled the Volt off the market without a PHEV replacement?
I know some that want to ignore the real state of the grid and power generation and think that is okay since they will make the Bolt, but just wait till summer when everyone plugs in.
We need short range cars that can charge on the 110/220V grid we have for now, not Rivians and Teslas that will break us. Or, rather than try to force us all, try going with Last Mile Delivery Trucks in small urban study areas with 440V3PH, but where the grid is less apt to fail for starters, preferably near a nuke station. Try giving them to the Post Office for a few years and see how it affects the local grid economy.
If Gov wants to save the world, they need to make the creation of electricity, the grid, and Hydrogen a "Manhattan Project" level of commitment and stop bayonetting us into EVs, and energy prices that are meant to cause "The Great Reset". Without that grid and generating stations to make electric power, we can't bridge to Hydrogen.
We need the National Labs focused on energy physics, distribution, and storage, not on Teslas or Rivians. If we try and force the grid before it is ready, and if we try to replace all the ICE with electric too soon, we will do more damage than folks want to know. YMMV.
I remember all the hoopla over global cooling/warming in the 60's (1960's not my 60's). 
