The future Democrats want for America is drivers behind the wheel of an electric vehicle.
But this scheme is playing out like they predicted.
And Kamala Harris got bad news about this green energy scheme that has her questioning everything.
The electric vehicle revolution is going to fail from broken chargers
The Biden-Harris administration has an ambitious plan of mandating that two-thirds of all new vehicles sold by 2032 be electric.
States like California are plowing ahead with even more aggressive electric vehicle mandates.
The mass transition from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles hinges on the ability to build a nationwide network of public charging stations for them.
Electric vehicles’ short range makes public charging essential for road trips.
Right now, they’re grocery-getters that are only practical for short trips around town.
Building a nationwide charging network is proving to be more complicated than their supporters ever imagined.
ChargerHelp is a company that repairs and maintains charging stations.
They did a massive nationwide study involving 20,000 charging stations over the course of four years.
It turns out charging stations are far less reliable than what the industry advertises.
26.3% of the time ChargerHelp found that a charging station didn’t deliver on the capabilities it was claiming.
It compared the uptime that the charging stations reported versus what actual drivers found when they tried to use them.
“The biggest [takeaway] for us was continuing to see the disparity between what the stations say about themselves . . . versus the reality on the ground when our technicians or when drivers are interacting with the stations in person,” ChargerHelp SVP of product and strategy Walter Thorn told Tech Brew.
An electric vehicle driver can have a list of charging stations, but it’s a crap shoot whether they actually work.
Charging stations have been plagued with reliability problems and in urban areas have been common targets for copper thieves.
ChargerHelp stated that nonworking charging stations are “the overarching threat to system reliability and broader EV adoption in the United States.”
Even if the charging stations work, it can take hours to recharge.
Former President Donald Trump pointed out the folly of forcing America to switch to electric vehicles at a July rally in Florida.
“You don’t want to drive for 45 minutes and then stop for three hours,” Trump said.
Not only do they not work, there aren’t nearly enough of them to meet the expected demand of a mass transition to electric vehicles.
The Biden-Harris administration faces another electric vehicle debacle
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was tucked away, with handouts to try to prop up the electric vehicle industry.
It included $7.5 billion to help build public charging stations.
Only eight have been built nationally since the bill was signed into law on November 6, 2021.
The Biden-Harris administration set a goal of building 500,000 public charging stations for its electric vehicle transition by 2030.
But throwing money at the problem can’t get them built.
Not being able to build a reliable network of charging stations will keep electric vehicles as novelty items for the coastal elites.
