Posted on 12/12/2022 6:49:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
This industrial city an hour north of Indianapolis isn't as famous as Detroit, but it has become an unlikely battleground in the war over electric cars.
Almost everyone you meet here either works in a factory, is retired from one or has a relative in a plant that makes parts for gasoline-powered cars — which have ruled Kokomo for nearly 130 years.
Yet change is coming. Bulldozers are clearing Kokomo’s cornfields to build a $2.5-billion government-subsidized electric vehicle battery factory, with the aim of retaining jobs tied to auto production at a time California is leading the nation in phasing out gas-powered engines.
Environmentalists, along with industry and government leaders, see a transformation afoot after decades of false starts. They have acknowledged, however, that they can’t complete the shift if electric cars are viewed as something only for rich liberals in California and New York. They need everyone.
The uneasy reception to EVs in Indiana — in a national climate that includes Republican lawsuits against California's new emissions rules and televised warnings that they represent an attack on freedom — suggests that the country remains divided over embracing a technology that environmentalists say is essential to combating climate change.
Indiana can feel like a tough place to own an electric car.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Although you can power your house with it.
/sarc
Speaking in tongues should be in the Religion forum.
;^)
And it sits outside during an Indiana winter.
Tough ol’ bird!
Sorry for the computer engineering jargon. It was germane to the topic. My day job is EE/CS oriented. I give it a rest for human languages after hours. I renewed my Security+ cert last night. Good for another 3 years. I'll be 69 when it next needs a renewal...or not :-)
I sensed a disturbance in the Force.
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