Can California's electric-vehicle push overcome the red-state backlash?

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The uneasy reception to EVs in Indiana suggests that the country remains divided over embracing a technology that environmentalists say is essential to combating climate change.

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.

“It’s gonna wreck the economy,” Rokita said. “The ideology is [failing], when you mandate electric cars but don’t have the power to run them.”

 

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Noahbierman jjluna17 The infrastructure is not keeping pace with the electric car movement and eventually there will be a lot of cars with no means, or insufficient means to keep them running.

Noahbierman jjluna17 Too expensive , nowhere to charge , electric rates too much

JoshMankiewicz But they seem to emotionally buy intoEm bs. Create a tesla truck & call it Elon WhiteLightning or something & sell only in landlock states “just for them.” Front ornament jc on cross

JoshMankiewicz Indiana being Indiana. Freedumb!

I don’t know. Can Californians get over their hate of free speech and embrace people being able to communicate freely?

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