Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading the charge for the radical environmentalists in Congress.
Ocasio-Cortez had high hopes for this goal.
But ABC News just crushed her dreams with one surprising report on electric vehicles.
Ocasio-Cortez is the author of the Green New Deal in Congress, which would force the country to transition to so-called “green” energy and eliminate the use of fossil fuels.
The New York Congresswoman was optimistic about her goal of pushing Americans into electric vehicles now that Joe Biden is President.
Ocasio-Cortez drives an electric vehicle, but she drives a $59,000 Tesla because she admits it’s the only one that could make it from her home to the Swamp without charging.
Of course, most Americans can’t afford a $59,000 Tesla like Ocasio-Cortez.
And those Americans are quickly learning the painful truth about electric vehicles.
According to a new report from ABC News, road trips are a “logistical nightmare” with electric vehicles due to charging issues.
Drivers often can’t find charging stations or have to wait for hours to recharge their batteries.
New York resident Steve Hammes bought his daughter a Hyundai Kona Electric to take with her to college in Pennsylvania.
Hammes told ABC News that trying to plan her drive around charging stations was an outright nightmare.
“It makes me a little nervous,” Hammes said. “We want fast chargers that take 30 to 40 minutes—it would not make sense to sit at a Level 2 charger for hours. There isn’t a good software tool that helps EV owners plan their trips.”
Waiting for hours in line to recharge, broken chargers, and struggling to find charging stations are just a few of the logistical challenges of taking road trips with electric vehicles for drivers.
After causing gas prices to rise, Joe Biden is now trying to use the crisis to push electric vehicles on the country.
Biden set a goal of having 50% of all vehicle sales be electric by the year 2030.
Despite billions of taxpayer dollars being used to build a network of charging stations around the country, they are still mired in problems.
John Voelcker, an electric vehicle expert, said he frequently hears complaints about the charging station infrastructure not working properly in several locations.
“The incentive right now is to get stations in the ground,” Voelcker said. “It’s not making sure they actually work.”
“Longer trips bring up flaws with EVs,” editor-in-chief of Car and Driver Tony Quiroga said. “People are leery of taking them on long trips – that’s why older EVs don’t have 40,000 miles on them.”
When drivers use an amenity like the heater, Hammes said that the range drops in electric vehicle batteries.
“You use the luxuries . . . and the range plummets,” Quiroga said
Joe Biden claimed that “on my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified.”
But reality just punched the Left’s dream of electric vehicles right square in the nose.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
