Note to Pres - the EV jobs are in the network

To really reap the benefit of electric vehicles, we need infrastructure, not just battery manufacturing.

It's great that Pres Obama is highlighting the benefits of getting more electric vehicles on American roads, but to reap the real sustained benefits - lower imports of oil for transportation and reduced carbon emissions - and create significant numbers of jobs, we need to build the infrastructure. Broad adoption of mass-produced EVs and plug-in hybrids will depend on two things - the vehicles have to be accepted as 'real' mass market cars, and someone will have to build the ecosystem - home and network charging, and a cellphone-like value package, so that owing and operating an EV is easy and at least comparable in cost to a gasoline power vehicle.