The problem with Biden's EV agenda
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The Biden administration’s push to get people into electric vehicles is running directly into the chief advantage of internal-combustion-engine cars, which is the sheer convenience.
People don’t really have “range anxiety,” the fear their electric vehicle will run out of its charge.
Electric cars have acquired more range now, and most people aren’t driving 300 miles in a single trip, regardless.
No, it’s the time it takes to charge an electric car compared with the ease of a trip to the gas station that is the issue.
Gas stations already exist (about 145,000 of them with a million gas pumps), and no one had to subsidize their creation.
They are convenient and cost-effective and make economic sense.
Making charging stations available on a comparable scale will present formidable obstacles.
As Mark Mills of the National Center for Energy Analytics points out in a paper on electric cars, transporting the large amounts of energy at the necessary scale using electric energy via wires and transformers is much more expensive than doing it with oil via pipelines and tanks.
Installing the superchargers necessary to make charging somewhat rapid — but still slower than gassing up — will require “a grid power demand comparable to a small town or steel mill.”
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There is also the fact that creating electricity to run EVs is also mostly done with fossil fuels at this point. A road trip in an EV is probably never going to be as handy as the current infrastructure for servicing fossil fuel vehicles.
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The leading advocates of mandatory electrification evince a profound hostility toward cars and the people who like them.
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