The Feds Create the Demand, and Then Prop Up Investment to Increase the Supply

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I had previously noted, on Christmas Eve of 2021, that I spotted six Tesla charging stations at the Wawa at the junction of Pennsylvania Route 61 and Interstate 78. Five of the chargers were unoccupied, while a sixth was blocked by a mid-1990s, gasoline-engine beater car, using the charging area as a parking space. 🙂 …

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Puncture of Critical EV Part Triggers ‘Thermal Runaway’ – 20,000 Gallons of Water Needed to Put Out the Fire

The Wakefield Fire Department and Massachusetts State Police responded to a one-car accident on Interstate 95 in Wakefield on Thursday night. When they arrived at the scene, they saw a Tesla electric vehicle “wedged onto the guardrail in the right breakdown lane,” according to a Wakefield Fire Department press release. The driver had been able to …

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Man Charges His Electric Truck for Entire Week, It Gained Just 56 Miles of Range

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The owner of an R1T, an electric truck manufactured by Rivian Automotive, Inc., wrote to electric vehicle website InsideEVs.com to share his experience, or rather his nightmare. The Phoenix, Arizona, resident told InsideEvs he had left his truck plugged in for an entire week and found it had drawn only 32 kWh which means it only added …

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Pete Buttigieg Looking at California’s New EV Policy at a Federal Level

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Late last month, the state of California Air Resources Board approved a regulation that will ban the sale of new gas-powered automobiles by 2035. No gas-powered vehicles with a model year of 2035 or beyond will be sold in the state. However, residents will still be allowed to drive cars with gas engines under Resolution …

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GM Official Bragged About Electric Car, Then Reporter Forced Her to Admit Where Charging Electricity Comes From

The left has spent the last few months trying to shame Americans into buying electric vehicles. On Tuesday, Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat, bragged to colleagues during a Senate Finance Committee hearing about driving her electric car from her home state to Washington, D.C., unconcerned about the price at the pump. She said, “[I] …

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