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What Everyone Gets Wrong About EVs

If you only read headlines, you would think electric vehicles are collapsing. Sales are “slowing.” Chargers “do not work.” The “transition” is over before it began. Army veteran and EVgo Senior Vice President Marcy Bauer sees a different reality. “There are more EVs on the road than there are public fast chargers to serve them.” That is not a collapse. That is growth outpacing infrastructure. The Gap That Actually Matters The core problem is simple. EVs on the road keep increasing. Public fast charging has not caught up. Utilization on networks like EVgo is rising. Drivers depend on fast charging more, not less. At the same time, charging tech is getting better. New chargers can deliver hundreds of kilowatts. More vehicles can actually accept that power. A 20 to 80 percent charge is moving from a 45 minute chore toward a “bathroom, coffee, check your phone” stop. The bottleneck is not the technology. It is deployment speed and scale. The Headlines Miss The Long Game Whenever a subsidy changes or a company adjusts its plans, the same storyline pops up. “EV demand is dead.”“The transition has failed.” Look below the fold and you usually see something else. Sales are still growing year over year, just not at last year’s record pace. A manufacturer paused to retool a plant or shift models. A single quarter gets turned into a grand verdict. Meanwhile, operators keep building. More models come to market. More states invest in infrastructure. This is not just about EVs. It is about how we talk about American energy. If we confuse noise with signal, we will miss where the real race is happening. The Global Race We Pretend Is Not Happening While the United States argues about whether EVs are “real,” other countries are treating them as a strategic industry. China is building and exporting EVs at scale. Parts of Europe are moving faster on both vehicles and infrastructure. In several markets, EVs make up a huge share of new car sales. Marcy was blunt. The global EV market is strong. We are the ones at risk of falling behind. That matters for national security. If we do not build the vehicles, the batteries, and the chargers here, we will import them. If we do not train the workforce here, our competitors will. This is not a culture war issue. It is an industrial one. Veterans understand what it means when critical systems are controlled somewhere else. A Veteran Filter For All The Noise Marcy spent her Army career in military intelligence. Her job was to turn information into decisions. She uses the same filter in clean energy. Is this actionable. Arguing about 2050 targets does not help if families cannot afford their bills today or drivers cannot charge in a snowstorm on the side of the highway. So her focus is on what people can feel now: Clean air and water. Reliable power and transportation. Good jobs that cannot be offshored easily. Domestic energy that makes us safer. That is not ignoring climate. It is how you get people to move. Veterans are good at this. We are trained to sort signal from noise and act on what matters. Where Veterans Fit In The EV ecosystem, and clean energy more broadly, needs exactly that mindset. Marcy sees veterans thrive in roles where things are complex and changing: Operations and logistics. Field deployment and maintenance. Project management and coordination. Plans will shift. Policies will change. Technology will evolve. Veterans have already lived and worked through that kind of volatility. Once a team hires one or two veterans and sees how they perform, managers start asking for more. That is one of the big reasons Project Vanguard exists. Veterans are already a larger share of the clean energy workforce than the general population. They are also some of the most trusted messengers in the country. If we care about energy security and American competitiveness, we need more of them building the next phase of this system. Final Thoughts A lot of people have the EV story backwards. The problem is not that EVs failed. The problem is that they worked. Now our infrastructure is racing to catch up, and our competitors abroad are moving faster than we are. Marcy’s path runs from small town America, to Kuwait’s oil-scarred landscapes, to the front lines of fast charging in the United States. Along the way she picked up a filter that veterans know well. Be honest about the problem. Focus on what is actionable. Build the solution. If this shifted how you think about EVs, share it with someone who has only seen the headlines. And if you want more veteran-led clarity on American energy, subscribe and stay with us. There is a lot of noise out there. We are here to cut through it. Get full access to Project Vanguard at media.projectvanguard.com/subscribe (https://media.projectvanguard.com/sub...)