Says the guy who turned the Whitehouse lawn into a Tesla showroom for a day.
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I'm looking forward to that big beautiful obituary
mocking EV owners for worrying about range – claiming they have a “disease.”
Not exactly what the headline is hinting at.
Out of the entire unhinged rant, Trump did say one accurate thing: the EV take rate in the US is roughly 7%. The problem is that he said it proudly while the rest of the world is rapidly moving to electric transport.
We just got numbers for July a couple of days ago here in Denmark. Sales of EV are now 97% for personal cars!!
He is doing his part to make oil expensive and risky, propelling electric car sales everywhere on the planet but the US.
We took the electric car for our families European road trip last week which saw us land in Spain, loop through southern France before returning via Caen. While we were using an app too plan stops with high speed CCS chargers we certainly didn't need to go out of our way. Unsurprisingly the major trunk routes are well appointed with fast chargers - generally cheaper than the UK fast chargers as well.
Range anxiety isn't really a thing I feel these days and having regular breaks helps with the quality of the driving.
The "politicize everything" era will hopefully be just an era.
It's an energy source. It has no inherent political character. Putting the gov thumb on the scale to pick a different "winner" isn't better.
thumb on the scale like fossil fuel subsidies, tax breaks and not paying for externalities of emissions? Agreed.
I mean yeah, he is obviously trying to pick a winner here, namely "legacy automakers and dealerships".
And even assuming the POV of being fine with a sort of US-centric populist economic interventionism, you'd think it would make more sense to give people options. What's more resilient to foreign predations, a multifaceted automotive industry with various power sources, or one that is heavily reliant on importing a non-renewable commodity from stated geopolitical foes?
Funny guy, he even bought a Teslar recently.
From a MAGA perspective it’s probably acute lackofgullibityritis
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