Biden's electric car fallacy

 Western Journal:

As gas prices soar across the country, President Joe Biden attempted to explain the benefits of electric cars. Predictably, his explanation was more confusing than it was helpful.

Biden was giving a speech Thursday describing his two massive spending sprees, also known as the Build Back Better plan and infrastructure bill.

According to a White House transcript, Biden was describing the need to replace buses and cars with electric alternatives like rail and electric cars.

“When you buy an electric vehicle, you can go across America on a single tank of gas, figuratively speaking,” Biden said. “It’s not gas. You plug it in.”
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Biden’s suggestion that you can drive across the country in an electric car on the equivalent of one tank of gas is false on multiple levels.

First, electric cars have a shorter range than gas cars. The average electric car can travel 250-350 miles on a single charge, the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies reported. The 350-mile range is comparable to many gas cars, but UC Davis said only higher-end brands like Tesla have that range.

To most logical people, the equivalent of one tank of gas would be a full charge in an electric vehicle. Considering the country is a lot longer than 350 miles, it would be impossible to travel across the country on one charge.

Once the electric car does run out of gas, re-charging it is not nearly as simple as getting a tank of gas.

UC Davis reported in a standard 120V outlet like the ones in a normal home, a fully electric car can take 20 or more hours to charge. Even with a 240V outlet, full charging takes four to eight hours.

Some vehicles are equipped for “fast charging,” meaning they can get an 80 percent charge in about 20 minutes. That is still significantly longer than a typical stop for gas.
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Biden has driven up the price of gas by restricting supply and increasing the cost of transporting it to markets by limiting access to pipelines.  His ill-inform explanation of electric vehicles is typical of the half-assed thinking that goes into his decision-making.  Now, every time I see the advertised price of gas as a pass a station it makes me want to vote against every Democrat on the ballot.

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