With 90 million people still on the roads of snow and ice storm roads throughout the United States, motorists can especially appreciate President Donald Trump’s first day executive order, eliminating the demands of automakers to sell electric vehicles. [emphasis, links added]
The president signs an execution order on one of the coldest days of the year.
It is estimated that electric vehicles lose an average of 20% of the battery range in cold weather. The research found that At freezing temperatures, the Tesla Model X (with a heat pump) loses 11% of its normal range. Volkswagen ID. 4 Loss 37%.
Americans like to choose, and drivers want to be able to choose their own car.
8% of cars for sale in 2024 are battery-powered electric motors, but President Joe Biden ordered his Environmental Protection Agency and his Department of Transport to issue unpopular regulations that could require big Most new passenger cars and a quarter of heavy trucks will only be powered by battery by 2032.
President Trump has pledged to revoke these regulations and get rid of electric vehicle subsidies from manufacturers and drivers.
Electric cars may run out of power during an ice storm. In many areas, the only cars seen on roads in the current snowstorm are sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks or other four-wheel drive vehicles.
New York City put down the electric snow field because “they can’t farm effectively” and “be in trouble four hours later”, According to New York Public Health Commissioner Jessica Tisch, now the New York City Police Department chief, the diesel snow field operates 12 to 24 hours.
Small businesses and farmers cannot take leave, so they rarely work with electric vehicles. Good – imagine the economic losses of farmers, technicians, and small businesses that can’t work on snowy days because their trucks and tractors are “in a dilemma”.
President Trump plans to terminate a tax credit of up to $7,500 per vehicle passed by Congress in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Even with a $7,500 tax credit, the car salesman didn’t sell enough electric cars to meet the authorization. In 2023 and 2024, they wrote to President Biden, begging him to “brake” his regulations.
80% of these EV tax credits are required by the top five households in the income distribution. Many people use the vehicle as a second car for a trip to town, but for longer trips, they have a gasoline-powered car.
The electric version of the base version of the Ford 150 pickup truck in the United States costs almost an extra $30,000.
Tesla's base price starts at $39,000 and models are Model X X.
The price of diesel trucks is about $120,000; the price of electric trucks is as high as $450,000 to $500,000, which increases the cost of transporting goods for everyone.
Additionally, the United States does not even have the technology to power grid capacity, charging stations or operating electric vehicle fleets and long-distance electric trucks [trucks] – And not for a while.
Vehicle chargers are using data centers, AI technology competes for rooms on the grid and requires more heating and air conditioning.
A traditional car can easily refuel on the pump in five to 10 minutes, but it can take 45 minutes to charge an electric car.
If someone is already using a charging station, then waiting can double. Most people don't want to have their electric car batteries below 20%, and the charging rate may drop when charging above 80%.
Privileged electric car owners can charge their cars at home. But not everyone has such facilities. Some people live in houses and apartments without garages and must rely on public charging stations for electric cars.
Although Congress allocated $5 billion to the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program in 2022 to build 500,000 charging stations, only 58 are operating todayaccording to Washington Post.
Tesla has its own network of car charging stations. But drivers of other vehicles rely on private or government-provided charging stations.
Americans hope is not related to energy, but demands for electric vehicles make the U.S. transportation network depend on China, thus strengthening the Chinese economy.
China is 80% of the world's batteries, and Chinese auto company Bider is the world's largest electric car manufacturer.
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