Good.
No chargers unless there is a gas pump too.
U wanna drive an ev? Pay for your juice like the rest of us do.
Not on our dime!!
Same thing with the infrastructure bill. Infrastructure building actually went down. Maybe 5 years from now we’ll be building a lot of bridges and tunnels, or maybe the money will go into administrative costs and environmental and DEI studies.
“....500 miles without worry...”
Try 650-750 mi. with 3 vehicles I own. [16x45->720, 36x22->792]
They’ve put the potential of electrical vehicles being viable behind by at least a decade - maybe more. If all of these taxpayer funds were going to spent on electric vehicles, it should have been spent on R&D making the technology smaller, safer, and more efficient. Not pushing the manufacture and purchase of a technology not yet ready for prime time.
Now go look for the money. I bet it is gone.
“I don’t think there is anything wrong with the concept of electric cars. There is a good use case for them, and as a second car, I think one would be excellent to have and a lot of fun to drive.”
Trump is Ok with them as a second car. He said they are good for going to the candy store.
This reminds me of Solyndra.
The government is as inefficient and unreliable and expensive as it gets.
No doubt a bunch of highly paid bureaucrats - all Democrats - have been hired to spend the $7.5b. We can expect most of the money will go to all expense paid meetings in luxury vacation destinations.
Can’t wait to start seeing roadside stands sell compressed electricity for EV’s.
Can’t wait to start seeing roadside stands sell cans of compressed electricity for EV’s.
Fixed
The generation and distribution capacity to “fuel” all those chargers doesn’t exist. That will lead to reduced charging speeds, even from “fast chargers”, or no charging at all. Long lines will develop at some locations, fights will break out, maybe shootings. Carjackers and other varieties of criminals will target charging locations since they know people will be stuck there potentially for hours. Copper thieves will steal charging cables further reducing the availability of chargers. We’ve heard about “food deserts”, we will see “charge deserts” in crime-ridden urban areas. People will wisely avoid charging at night, making daytime charging that much more difficult.
Thank you, Joe Biden.