Joe Biden’s Electric Car Dream Is a Lie

Msn ^ | 04/15/2023 | Deroy Murdock

[ChicagoConservative27]

Regarding electric vehicles, President Joe Biden cannot simply use his bully pulpit to preach EVs’ virtues. Gift-wrapping them in lavish taxpayer-funded subsidies is not enough for Biden, either.

So, this dictator rules by fiat. Rather than ask Congress to enact a pro-EV law, Emperor Biden issued a decree on Wednesday, via the Environmental Protection Agency.

By 2030, 54% of new passenger vehicles must be electric. Just two years later, that mandate would grow by more than one-fifth, until 67% of new cars and light trucks are electric in 2032.

[Impala64ssa]

If they haven’t done so already it will only be a matter of time before some woketards call fossil fuels transphobia and systemic racism. They’re trying that narrative with firearms ownership.

[Bubba_Leroy]

The left’s goal is not to force people to drive electric cars. Not even the far left believes that our electric grid could ever handle everyone trading their ICE vehicles for electric ones. The goal is to force people to ride mass transit by making any other option prohibitively expensive.

[VideoDoctor]

Here in the land of stupid aka Illinois they're starting to throw money at electric school buses

I grew up and lived in Illinois many years ago.

Running those buses on a normal +10 to minus -10 degree morning should be fun to watch... especially with their "heating" of the bus and the abnormal "stop and go" driving necessary for school buses.

[USCG SimTech]

1. The power grid companies said it would take a MINIMUM or 20 years to install the national grid that could support the current needed for a conversion to all electric. The lines and the transformers feeding every town and city will have to be completely replaced.

-regardless-

2. There are no sources to feed this grid even if built. 6th grader math students can run the simple numbers to prove solar and wind cannot supply CONSTANT and CONSISTANT, 24/7/365 current into the grid (that doesn’t exist).

-but-

3. Maintenance, both preventive required, and corrective would require tripling the technical and blue collar workforce. Never mind the even more so installation personnel over the next 20 years. These people don’t exist.

[Impala64ssa]

We visited the Studebaker Museum in South Bend,IN. Before WW1 Studebaker offered a line of light and medium duty electric powered trucks. There were a few other manufacturers who produced small numbers of EV's, Baker Electric, Walker, and British Electric Vehicles in the UK, but they eventually focused on industrial applications for their vehicles.

Studebaker discontinued their line of EVs by the time we were involved in the war and never produced them again because of the same problems plaguing the EVs today, limited range, inconvenience of recharging, and then as now, how insanely expensive they were. Technology improved but there's still a long way to go to make them even somewhat practical and feasible.

[Fai Mao]

I will not buy any new vehicle made by the UAW.

We drive a Mazda CX-30

[Ronald77]

congress has allowed the president to make laws for decades, this way they dont have to take ownership of them.

[FreeReign]

I was always under the impression that executive orders were orders that were directed at the operation of the executive branch. If the chief executive wanted to declare April 20th a paid holiday for people employed by the bureaus of the federal executive branch, then, it would be so commanded. But making orders for us poor peons out in the hinterland, well that requires the legislative process as outlined in the constitution. But, seeing how we really live in the Twilight Zone, as opposed to the United States of America, what the hell do I know?

Yes, this.

[FreeReign]

Congress can smack down an EO. Maybe they forgot that.

Legally, Congress doesn't need to smack down EO's when they are unconstitutional.

And as another poster pointed out, EO's are only constitutional for the Chief Executive to command employees in the Executive Branch.

[FreeReign]

Easily over-turned by another Executive Order with the right person in the WH

Don't need another Executive Order. EO's commanding private companies and private citizens are unenforceable in court.

(Or at least that's how it's supposed to be)

[Shady]

One of the largest challenges for hybrid/electric busses is the software to handle hills, especially in inclement weather.

[mewzilla]

https://knoxradio.com/2022/01/07/fargo-cancels-school-due-to-cold-weather/

Guess why.

[Bonemaker]

It’s a dry wet dream Joe.

[ridesthemiles]

Atlas Shrugged:

Ma Barker & her soybeans that got special timing for train travel.

Beans were picked TOO early & rotten in the cars that were unable to move anywhere.

[Brown Deer]

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/04/joe-bidens-electric-car-dream-is-a-lie/

[VanShuyten]

“… they’re starting to throw money at electric school buses..🙄”

EVs make sense for short, repetitive routes. Sort of. EVs have fewer mechanical problems, and they used to be cheaper to run. A good example is using EVs on our suburban town’s postal circuits.

However, it turned out that the EVs had problems with the charging schedules.

[clearcarbon]

"Imagine everybody driving an EV during the future blackouts and brownouts an all dead industries because of lack of energy and huge unemployment. "

Not only will most people be unable to buy cars, they'll also be unable to keep food refrigerated.

[Not_Who_U_Think]

From what I read, EVs lose about 2 -2.5% of capacity every year, it can be more if you use a rapid charger.

So, in ten years your EV will have lost 25% of it’s range.

I guess we’ll know soon enough, but I can’t see a thriving market for used EVs - who wants a battery that’s losing range? And, replacing the battery is incredibly expensive - 15-$20,000.

Unless you can use it for commuting, and save your gas powered car for trips, I don’t see it working out. Or maybe that’s the plan.

[AbolishCSEU]

Probably heated by gas.

[momincombatboots]

Trump signed executive orders as well.