Posted on 09/11/2023 6:41:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
There may come a day when America and Americans are ready for electric vehicles. Today is not that day and it seems like we’re not even close. Nonetheless, the Biden-Harris regime and state-level Democrat tyrants across the country are bent on trying to force us into them, which is why Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm took a PR trip with an NPR reporter in tow.
When they made the decision to invite journalist Camila Domonoske with them on their four-day trip, they didn’t expect the headline to be, “Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy“.
According to the article:
But between stops, Granholm’s entourage at times had to grapple with the limitations of the present. Like when her caravan of EVs — including a luxury Cadillac Lyriq, a hefty Ford F-150 and an affordable Bolt electric utility vehicle — was planning to fast-charge in Grovetown, a suburb of Augusta, Georgia.
Her advance team realized there weren’t going to be enough plugs to go around. One of the station’s four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy.
That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?
In fact, a family that was boxed out — on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle — was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved: They called the police.
Clearly, it’s not what NPR was expecting nor what the White House was hoping to happen, but kudos to the radical left-wing state-run outlet for not killing the story.
A family with a baby in the sweltering Georgia heat were victims of White House privilege. It’s truly disgusting that they would be so desperate for positive press that they would cause harm to this family for the sake of good optics. Thankfully, those optics have been upended.
Regular people don’t have advance teams to reserve charging slots for them. But even without the advance team causing problems, this story would have highlighted the idiocy of the green push onto a country that has nowhere near the proper infrastructure for mass adoption of electric vehicles.
As Nick Arama from Red State noted, we may not have even heard about this story if the family hadn’t accelerated their grievance:
Good for the family who wasn’t taking that nonsense and called the police on them. The police couldn’t do much, however, because it’s not illegal to do what the Secretary’s team did. But realizing they had a potential PR nightmare on their hands, they “scrambled to smooth over the situation, including sending other vehicles to slower chargers, until both the frustrated family and the secretary had room to charge.”
Americans need to see how low the White House is willing to go to try to prove EVs are good. They tried to manufacture good optics. Leaving a family with a baby to suffer in the Georgia heat ain’t it, chief.
Everything about these godless, Chinese-suckling $**tbags is a total fraud.
I’m sure Granholm asked the family why they hadn’t just aborted that clump of cells.
Base sticker $60,000, with options, $73,000. Made in Tennessee and China.
Plus need white white house advance team to occupy charging stations for you.
I could have told you that in 2020. I voted for Trump. And in 2024 unless you want more of what you already got, he is the man. These imposters and posers that are running now are Democrat Lites and will fold like an accordion.
EVs and only EVs will be the biggest disaster EVER , EV Rage and fighting over chargers will end lives
Fights have already been observed at chargers..................
Democrats are bullies and liars... I’m surprised this women even attempted to ‘drive’ - rather than have her limo driver do it for her. Talk about ‘out of touch’...guess she was believing her own press. Big mistake for democrats to do.
Everyone will own an EV brick with no way to charge it but don’t park it near your house it may catch fire
FIRST RULE OF POLITICS:
Never believe your own propaganda...........
Park it by the Democrat’s house next door..............
too bad the road trip wasn’t staged in Somalia. The idiot should have taken booty juice with her.
The Left wears blinders and never sees the whole picture ,LOL
Cadillac Lyriq and Ford F-150 Lightning's are horrible EV's for road trips. They have huge batteries (~100kWh) that take a while to charge to get 250 miles (officially 312 miles for the Lyriq, but not in the real world) -- and that's if you charge them to 100%. Given that charging slows a lot past 80% -- that's a long time. Because the cars are so huge they get about 2.5 miles/kWh driving just 50 mph, probably less than 2 miles/kWh driving on the interstate.
There are way better EV's for road trips that get much better miles/kWh and can charge to 80% in 10-15 minutes. Oh, wait a second. Those aren't made by Ford or GM. LOL
Oh and fast chargers take 4 to 6 hours, but Level 3 takes about an hour (50kW – 120kW are rare to find).
Normal 3kw chargers take 10 to 14 hours.
So for that one hour, or 4 to 6 hours, or 10 to 14 hours, while on road trip, what does one do? Read a lot, maybe?
What if stuck in south Memphis? Or in middle-east Baltimore? Just sit there and charge?
It just does not seem very practical unless you are just going from the house to the country club and home again in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
I recently read a report that the motive power in a fully-charged F-150 Lightning is the equivalent of 4 gallons of gasoline. Who the hell would leave home on a road trip of ANY length with that kind of fuel on board?
“Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy“
The road trip “problem” is not a problem. Electric vehicles are meant to keep you in 15 minutes cities where you can be observed like a bug in a mason jar.
I never go anywhere without my advance team.
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Or Chicago or Compton?...............
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