The Biden administration’s plan to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles — reaching a two-thirds share of new cars in less than a decade — pushes automakers further in a direction they have already been going. But meeting the new timetable will be a challenge.Most car companies are convinced that a transition to electric vehicles is necessary and inevitable, and they have been spending tens of billions of dollars to develop electric models and build the plants needed to produce the cars and their battery packs.Ford Motor is aiming to have electric vehicles make up half of its sales by 2030, a big step toward the administration’s target. General Motors has overhauled a Detroit factory to make E.V.s, and it recently started production at a new battery plant in Ohio …
