Posted on 03/30/2024 2:16:20 AM PDT by knighthawk
More than two years after President Joe Biden pledged to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations throughout the United States only seven are operational across four states.
The Washington Post reported Friday on the sluggish pace the allocated $7.5 billion in infrastructure funds have been put to use.
The bulk of the funds, $5 billion, are to go toward building fast chargers along major interstates - what's being called the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure or NEVI program.
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This is like a William Gibson novel as conceived by Ayn Rand.
The Biden Crime Family got a billion dollar bonus.
Obviously, this is a democrat argument for re-lecting slow Joe to another term -— so that he can finish the job.
The head of The Biden Crime family likes to spend other people’s money.
A brand new Shell station in Athens, TX has a charge area. I asked the manager how many times it’s been utilized, he said zero. We both laughed.
Simple fact of the matter is EV passenger vehicles are a boutique vehicle and unless the technology advances to overcome the range and charging issues they will never advance to a mass market product here no matter how much the administration threatens to ban gas engines by 2035 to press their fossil fuel free fantasy. Politically, I think they will relent and go to their half step plan B and raise industry mileage requirements to force hybrid product on the roads. Prescient hybrid king Toyota will win that mass market sweepstakes. I’m also suspecting Elon is seeing the writing on the wall as he has been doing some forward thinking lately and talking a quite a bit about hydrogen fuel cell technology lately that may potentially expand his markets and get out from under the range and charging issues.
They removed the only charging stations they had in my city because they weren’t being used.
Heh, and here in the upper Midwest every Meijer (size a Walmart) at of hundreds of locations has these Tesla charging stations that I’ve never seen a car in. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an EV here in Michigan but then I’m not sure if I saw one I’d recognize it. I guess being near the Motor City combined with frequent harsh winters there’s absolutely no market for these expensive and clunky flashlights with wheels.
The entire EV escapade looks like the most expensive experiment in the history of the US to see just how effective flashy, modern propaganda can alter the citizens mindset away from natural law and common sense logic that even a 10 year old can figure out.
So, if they’re giving higher priority to building charging stations along the interstates, that means they are giving lower priority to chargers available to people using their EVs for local short-distance travel. And it’s local short-distance travel that EV’s are most useful for.
As usual, the idiots running the country have their priorities ass-backwards.
Fixed it for ya.
Time to plug Plugs BiXiden in.
They have seven charging stations up. But now they need another $7.5 Billion.
Where are apartment dwellers in big ‘Rat Urban Utopias recharging their EVs?
The idea of a half-million charging stations being green is laughable.
Um, most of them don’t own cars.
7.5 billon 7 installed wheres all the money? the rats across the board know how to steal
And the dozens of coal fired or nuclear generating plants that would be needed to supply their electricity????? ....Are those being built?
You’ve been bamboozled!
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