# Professor Melissa Schilling comments on obstacles to adoption of electric vehicles

1 Faculty News July 6, 2017 ![Fortune logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031172.jpg?itok=61CxYB-R)>

Excerpt from [Fortune Magazine](http://fortune.com/2017/07/06/france-gas-car-ban-united-states/) -- "'When I was serving on a committee studying the obstacles to adoption of electric vehicles at the National Academy of Sciences, we concluded that there was no possibility of even getting a carbon tax passed, and that was under the Obama administration, which had a much more pro-environment stance than our current administration,' said [Melissa Schilling](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/melissa-schilling), a professor of management and organizations at New York University."

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