Earlier this year, the media were abuzz with reports of electric vehicles failing to maintain their battery charge during Chicago’s severe cold snap. This demonstrated the practical challenges of using electric vehicles in cold climates.
This removes all consumer choice regarding what car they buy. When given a choice, a major car manufacturer stated that customers would choose hybrid vehicles. Many franchises have only five days’ worth of inventories for all hybrids compared with more traditional and electrified vehicles. Electric vehicles are rarely people’s first choice; the majority of EVs sold are second or third cars in someone’s driveway. Often, Teslas and other fully electric vehicles are token show cars.
To build these fully electric cars, almost 400 pounds of additional critical minerals will be needed per new vehicle. Using the same amount of scarce critical material, Toyota can build 90 hybrids and reduce 37 times as much tailpipe carbon emission than one battery electric vehicle. That statistic is glaring and leads one to think that the Biden administration is not serious about an electric future but simply saying for optics.