Two U.S. lawmakers on Thursday will unveil legislation that would create a nationwide electric vehicle (EV) charging network to promote the shift from gasoline-powered vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Democratic Representatives Andy Levin and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are releasing legislation dubbed the “EV Freedom Act” to create a network of high-speed charging stations within five years along the public roads of the national highway system in the United States at a U.S. Capitol press conference at 12 p.m. EST.
Levin represents a suburban Detroit district that includes many autoworkers, while Ocasio-Cortez is from New York who helped unveil the “Green New Deal” earlier this year to transition the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels.
They will be joined by environmental groups and the United Auto Workers union.
U.S. automakers like General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co are spending billions of dollars to build a series of new electric vehicles. EV automaker Tesla Inc is deploying its own network of fast-charging stations.
The 18-page bill reviewed by Reuters notes a lack of charging stations pose a significant barrier to higher electric vehicle sales.
There is just no way that we will get to broad-scale adoption of electric vehicles until we crush range anxiety and then it will happen precipitously,” Levin told Reuters.
Levin said creating a new fleet of charging stations nationwide will be expensive but will create good-paying jobs. He said the government could partner with companies that are currently building EV charging stations.
Democrats running for U.S. president have pledged to spend billions of dollars on new charging stations and a House Democratic infrastructure plan released last week would also boost government funding for stations.
Many Democratic candidates have called for eliminating or largely phasing out gasoline-powered vehicles by 2030 or 2035 and back significant rebates to vehicle owners for scrapping polluting vehicles and shifting to electric vehicles.
Senator Bernie Sanders wants to spend $85.6 billion building a national EV charging infrastructure network “similar to the gas stations and rest stops we have today.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden says he would work to support the “deployment of more than 500,000 new public charging outlets by 2030.”
Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg would require all new cars by 2035 to be electric and would build a highway charging network with the goal of a station every 50 miles (80 km).
At the same time, Republican president Donald Trump opposed efforts in Congress last year to expand a $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles and has called for eliminating it.
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These are the people who think if only you install enough wall plugs, you’ll be happily electrified, forever and amen.
As an aside, I’m surprised no-one seems to be thinking about the time it takes to actually recharge an EV battery. If only EVs were used, all individual long-distance travel would come to a screeching halt.
So your car runs out of power 50 miles from the closes recharge Station what is to do? Have Sawdust for Brains Ocasio-Cortez figured that out yet?
“Two U.S. lawmakers on Thursday will unveil legislation that would create a nationwide electric vehicle (EV) charging network to promote the shift from gasoline-powered vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” BASED ON A LIE!!!
Yup. The climate crisis LIE continues to creating lots of lucrative board positions for elected government family and friends at tax payer expense. Every single person is currently in debt for $70,619 in free for all government spending. What will we be holding the bag for when the climate crisis LIE fails to meet taxpayers needs??
https://www.pgpf.org/national-debt-clock
Free market or not, subsidies or not, the rising negative environmental impact of renewable development and rare battery material mining coupled with rising costs for those same rare battery materials and ever rising electrical generation rates for higher demand and the need for expanded electrical distribution networks will kill the EV market.
As originally reported by Germany’s Manager Magazin and shared on Yahoo! Finance via Reuters, Daimler has cut its initial Mercedes-Benz EQC electric car production goal in half, from an originally announced anticipated 60,000 copies, to just 30,000 vehicles in the first full year of production (2020). The company blames this oversight on a shortage of battery cells from partner company and battery-supplier LG Chem.
Moreover, Mercedes previously announced plans to sell some 25,000 EQC vehicles in 2019 alone, but only managed to manufacture about 7,000 due to a lack of battery cells.
Considering the constant scrutiny surrounding Tesla production and delivery numbers, it’s important to look deep into the competition and situation related to OEMs’ upcoming electric vehicle pursuits. Doing so all but proves that, despite massive and sometimes shared efforts, EV production and deliveries are proving increasingly difficult for a wide variety of reasons.
Battery Precious Metals Have Serious Supply Chain Risks
https://blog.ballard.com/electric-vehicle-battery-supply-chain
This is a challenging task, even for sophisticated, well-researched and well-capitalized organizations. Indeed, a credible risk assessment must be grounded in a sound understanding of:
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Typical of the climate change movement they are rushing ahead without determining the feasibility first. Where will the power come from for these vehicles isn’t only an unanswered question but one that the proponents of electric cars haven’t even asked. The same is true of the feasibility of making so many batteries. Another big issue is affordability to lower middle class and below income groups. This issue only starts with the fact that electric cars are more expensive. The big issue is the batteries don’t last as long as the typical fossil fuel powered cars. With batteries needing to be replaced at a cost of $12,000 it becomes impossible for millions of families to afford a used electric car. The most my family has ever paid for a car was $11,000 for a Suburban. Typically we pay $3,000. As a free lance music teacher who gives lessons in people’s homes my daughter has to have a car. He bought hers for $2,000.
The warmest are always promising that they will create jobs and this never happens. This is one area where a lot of jobs would be created but not what the activist have in mind. Mechanics and body shops would be very busy keeping the older fossil fuel cars running.
December 29, 2012 First responders ‘at risk of electrocution from hybrid and electric cars after serious accidents’
SAE International said in a report that hybrid and electric cars need industry-wide identification that first responders can use. After an accident, hybrid cars can be extremely dangerous to rescue workers because of increased battery size combined with electricity
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254602/First-responders-risk-electrocution-hybrid-electric-cars-accidents.html
Feb 8, 2016 Are Electric Cars Really Green?
Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars’ production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars really are.
https://youtu.be/17xh_VRrnMU
The free market system built the auto industry, driving public, and gas station system and all the related services—an enormous system overall. All of this was from private money and effort, capitalism. Why should some political boondoggle be allowed to force the public’s tax dollars to be spent to facilitate the use of cars that have very limited applications in a country as large as ours? Downtown in NYC, a fleet of electric taxis might work, but they would have to have more than twice the number of cars because at least half would be in the corral being charged at any given time.
In Europe, an normal drive from Paris to Madrid should cost about $15 in gasoline, but with current rates for electricity by Ionity, the BMW charging system, it would cost $80 and take five stops for recharging and many more hours. Yeah, that’s progress.
Let’s just have everybody clamp a 10 lb weight to their left foot and go about their daily life. That’s their minimal goal for us.
It’s not the government’s money. It’s the American taxpayer’s money. Now, this imbecile bartender wants us to pay for the EV stations. Go to the hell, you low IQ moron you.
Did the government pay for all the gasoline stations? No. Then why should they have to pay for the electrical ones?
Why would the UAW want a part in this!? There is already mass layoffs in Germany thanks to the forced shift to EV’s. EV’s require less parts and less people to put those cars together therefore layoffs and less union members. Why do unions have to latch onto every left wing pet project even if that means the demise of their members?
Our union president(s) at Stelco were NDP boosters. They strongly suggested that the NDP was our best option. Back in the lunchroom, the NDP was mocked.
We knew that they would drive our customers out of the province.
Someone needs to have their brain recharged its getting stupid again
And just how long dose it take to recharge a electric car battery? has,nt this Nit-Wit heard of the UK big boondoggle over electric Police Cars that don’t work? Yes the Stupid Jackass Party is Stupid
So, once again the folks in Washington DC are better suited to determine the best use of resources, rather than a free market…Right? A couple questions seem reasonable as you set out to replace 300 MILLION internal combustion vehicles to achieve “EV Nation”: 1.) Where are you going to extract all the copper, lithium, cobalt & rare earth minerals to achieve that massive conversion? Is that even feasible? 2.) Where are you going to get 2 to 3 times the current U.S electric generation to charge all those vehicles? Add onto that all the new electric home heating & residential use as natural gas is increasingly banned in many localities? Wind & solar generation, of course…right? While their intentions are well meaning (I think), I truly believe the free market will set a better course rather than government intervention on this matter. Something tells me AOC won’t find this as “Easy Peasy” as she envisions…
Anarchy is not ‘well meaning’.
Otherwise, you’re right. I don’t believe in subsidizing failure.
This definitely calls for a user fee that includes road maintenance. I can see more EV’s in the future, even if it’s just a fad. Make them pay their own way. Like biofuels, the benefits to society are modest, questionable. Subsidies distort.