Here I am, getting my kicks on Route 66.
Posted on 09/10/2023 4:48:39 PM PDT by CFW
When Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm set out on a four-day electric-vehicle road trip this summer, she knew charging might be a challenge. But she probably didn't expect anyone to call the cops.
Granholm's trip through the southeast, from Charlotte, N.C., to Memphis, Tenn., was intended to draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars. The administration's ambitious energy agenda, if successful, could significantly cut U.S. emissions and reshape Americans' lives in fundamental ways, including by putting many more people in electric vehicles.
Granholm approaches a charging station to charge the Cadillac Lyriq she was riding during a four-day road trip through the southeast early this summer. The electric vehicle had charging problems due to an "isolated hardware issue," Cadillac says. But Granholm's team encountered plenty of not-so-isolated problems too.
On town hall stops along her road trip, Granholm made a passionate, optimistic case for this transition. She often put up a photo of New York City in 1900, full of horses and carriages, with a single car. Then another slide: "Thirteen years later, same street. All these cars. Can you spot the horse?"
One horse was in the frame.
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Here I am, getting my kicks on Route 66.
She’s just as competent as Secretary of Energy was as she was as Governess of Michigan.
its a trap
EVs are a ruse
to destroy private transportation
it will be walk bike or bus
Musk could put this whole EV crap to an end. As it stands now, he has a monopoly on the stations. Let’s see what happens...and hope it happens soon.
Hook a generator up to that NPR spin machine and it would power 28,000 homes.
Four days to go from Charlotte to Memphis? Back in April I went from Newton, NC to a few miles west of Little Rock in a day. Stopped for gas about every 200-250 miles. The car will go much farther than that between stops, but the wife won’t.
EVs are not good on road trips.
Simple solution for dems: Ban road trips.
Wouldn’t put it past them.
The idea is to make personal transporation unaffordable for the masses.
Shoulda shoved the charger up her @$$.
They can get back to when The Beast and its entourage are all & only electric.
Frankly, when all official gov’t vehicles are EVs.
grrr back to me...
Sounds like Solyndra on steroids.
Millions (billions?) of tax dollars wasted on “green” energy.
< spit3 >
you could almost be talking about the vax, there...
“EVs are not good on road trips. Simple solution for dems: Ban road trips.”
Once EVs are fully forced on the country, I doubt the term “road trip” will even exist.
t5he DoE has NEVER produced any energy of any kind other than hot air and burning money...
1. It is inevitable that the more popular they become, the more expensive battery-only EVs will be to operate because the gummint will somehow have to replace the gas tax revenues they’re missing out on from the decline in ICE vehicles. If you don’t understand that, you completely fail to comprehend the nature of government.
2. No one has yet addressed the fact that ICE vehicles use 20% of our total energy consumption. That energy gets delivered to the retail distribution points in ICE tanker trucks, but that’s not going to work with BEVs, which means the electric grid is going to shoulder that added burden. The question is, where’s the power going to come from, and unless someone cracks the code on Nikola Tesla’s trick of transmitting electricity (economically) through the air, who’s going to boost the grid (and how will they pay for it) so it can carry the extra load?
“Consistent with EPA’s traditional approach to establishing pollution standards for power plants under section 111 of the Clean Air Act, the proposed standards are based on technologies such as
carbon capture and sequestration/storage (CCS)
low-GHG hydrogen co-firing”
“Base load affected facilities that follow the CCS pathway must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2, using CCS, by 2035”
“Baseload affected facilities that follow the low-GHG hydrogen pathway must meet a second phase standard based on co-firing 30% low-GHG hydrogen by volume by 2032 and a third phase standard based on cofiring 96% by volume low-GHG hydrogen by 2038”
Florida Power & Light is going utility-scale solar in a big way.
I would much prefer for her battery to be stolen in a hotel parking lot. Or better yet catch on fire and burn down a parking garage.
Excellent as solar panels....they heat right up good on the side of the road.
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