We haven’t developed a workforce towards anything else yet,” said Warren Sims, a 41-year-old worker in the same casting plant that employs his father, working on gas transmission engines. “We don’t make a fuel-efficient vehicle. Everything’s big and everything costs [a lot to] fuel and people buy it.”
Major cities are located far apart, with few charging stations in between. The vehicles that dominate the landscape — American branded pickup trucks — are just beginning to be offered in electric versions. And the most popular EVs remain out of reach for many consumers in places where incomes tend to be lower. The charging stations at the Meijer grocery store parking lot in Kokomo sit empty for hours.
“They think you’re a bunch of racists polluting the planet, so you don’t deserve to have real choices,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham said after California’s Air Resources Board voted to halt sales of new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035. “It’s an effort to get you used to living with less — less prosperity and less freedom.”Indiana’s Todd Rokita is one of 17 attorneys general, all Republicans,in an attempt to block California’s right to set its own emissions standards.
Will Americans accept dictators?
Nope
'Can red states overcome their hatred of CA and embrace EVs? ' What a nasty newspaper. For the record, how are more than 10 million people in CA going to charge their EV which they can't afford. Apartment buildings, no garage, no possibility of installing a charger (my home)
1) EV’s violate Newton’s First Law: Every time one form of energy is converted to another, 50% of the capacity is lost. 2) This is a scheme to limit mobility in the name of the anti-science reality deniers that think (without proofs) that mankind is changing the “climate”.
Ask the better question. What happens when they do and the grid can’t supply the power?