Reptile8488 (Canva)Do you remember when the first fully electric vehicles came out in the early 2000s, and we all said, "Neat, but where are you going to plug it in?" Now—pause for emphasis—a full two decades later—electric vehicles are starting to become commonplace, but they still only account for about 1% of US auto sales.Electricity is cool, as long as it doesn't come from burning coal, but what if our fuel sources could be not only carbon neutral but actually carbon negative? That is the promise of biology.Yeast, bacteria, plants, and algae can use a huge variety of fuel sources—sugar, organic waste, and even greenhouse gases – to produce molecules that we can use for fuel, medicine, plastics, building materials, clothing, cosmetics, and more."It requires a bunch of tinkering and some cell engineering. But you can get [microorganisms] to consume basically anything and make basically anything," said Joshua Lachter, Co-Founder of Synonym Bio, a financing and development platform for biomanufacturing. "That's the idea, the hope, and the dream.". SynBioBetaSynthetic biologists at universities and companies around the world have shown that we can use biomanufacturing to produce hundreds of materials that are currently unsustainably sourced. So, what's the hold-up?For electric vehicles to become more ubiquitous, two shifts have occurred: One in economics, fuel prices went up, and the cost of manufacturing electric vehicles went down; One in infrastructure, EV charging stations popped up everywhere from condos to coffee shops.In order for biomanufacturing to reach its full potential, we have to build an infrastructure, and it's got to be cheap