‘Climate Change’ Puts Biden’s EV Mandate On Thin Ice
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The polar vortex gripping the nation has exposed a fatal flaw in President Joe Biden’s push to force Americans into electric cars. EVs don’t work well in the cold.
Several news stories out of Chicago this week report how EV owners have been struggling to keep their cars charged as extreme cold saps their batteries of energy, extends charging times, and forces owners to wait for hours to get an open charger.
“Several motorists told local news outlets that they had been stranded at charging stations in the cold with cars with dead batteries, while successful charging was taking far longer than usual. They also claimed that many of the charging stations were not functioning,” Newsweek reports.
One motorist reported that he’d seen “at least 10 cars being towed away after their battery died, with too much energy being expended keeping the car warm while drivers waited.”
Another told CBS News Chicago that a charge that should take 45 minutes was taking two hours. “I’ve been here for over five hours at this point and I still have not gotten to charge my car,” he said.
How many of these suckers, do you think, are going to buy another EV after going through this nightmare? How many buyers are going to dive into the EV pool when they read stories like this?
Consumers are already reluctant (and rightly so) to buy EVs, given their short range and charging hassles in good weather, their repair costs, their low, low resale value, fast-rising electricity costs, and the growing costs to insure them (they are, after all, fire hazards).
A Rasmussen Reports poll released this week found that 65% said they’re unlikely to buy an EV as their next car. More than a third said they are “not at all likely” to buy one.
At the other end of the spectrum, just 29% say their next car is likely to be an EV – which is down from 40% last year.
In other words, the more people know about EVs, the less likely they are to want one. And this poll was conducted before the spate of stories about owners stranded in the bitter cold.
Keep in mind that Biden’s mandates would force two-thirds of new cars sold to be EVs.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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