Congress spent $7.5 billion on electric vehicle chargers two years ago. How many have been built? One!

Well, casting no aspersions on you, but many people simply don't like change...in fact, that's the dictionary definition of a conservative. So much of the opposition to EVs is that they make people feel "weird." And it IS weird to abandon the enforced habit of draining your paycheck into a gas pump.

I think that the enthusiasm for EVs will wax and wane with gas prices. Right now, we're not getting gouged quite as much. But when they inevitably start gunning for $5 a gallon again?

Oh, and gas prices on California's North Coast were among the highest in the nation last year, cracking $6/gallon, so maybe they have a strong incentive to buy EVs.

Hertz said expensive repairs helped inform its decision to downsize its EV fleet. The move warns potential EV owners about "hidden" costs. Repairs for EVs can cost more than those for gas-powered cars.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/hertz-dumping-20000-evs-is-a-warning-to-electric-car-owners-everywhere/ar-AA1mSpng

From Consumer Reports

The survey reveals that, on average, EVs from the past three model years had 79 percent more problems than conventional cars. Based on owner responses on more than 330,000 vehicles

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/electric-vehicles-are-less-reliable-than-conventional-cars-

a1047214174/#:~:text=Electric%20vehicle%20owners%20continue%20to%20report%20far%20more,had%2079%20percent%20more%20problems%20than%20conventional%20cars.

So much for range.  Sometimes the range is zero.

https://news.yahoo.com/electric-car-owners-confront-harsh-130352017.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

Andrew Leech, managing director at Fleet Evolution, said that it was common for manufacturers to “wilfully overstate” EV range figures to attract buyers.

https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=E211US1079G91652&p=electric+cars+range+is+overstated

And factories are being shut down.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23934172/ford-12-billion-ev-investment-postpone-q3-earnings

https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-is-stalling-ev-production-because-demand-is-falling-off

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/car-dealers-to-biden-evs-aren-t-selling/ar-AA1kGMT4#:~:text=Dealers%20have%20a%20103-day%20supply%20of%20EVs%20compared,about%20twice%20as%20long%20as%20for%20gas-powered%20cars.

And then there are wind power cancellations

https://apnews.com/article/offshore-wind-orsted-cancellation-biden-new-jersey-3f2ff7c9832210ce862f6e7179fae439

None of Tom's shit is accurate.

None of the links to sources?  

Yet Kevin doesn't drive an EV either he has told us numerous times.  

No, I mentioned that once, and you've repeated it numerous times--in order to make some stupid point. I don't know what that point is.

I drive my cars until the end of their useful life. My current vehicle has probably 100,000 miles left. My next one will be an EV.

So why do you keep saying that I can't be in favor of the development of EVs unless I'm actually driving one at the moment? That's a dumb thing to say.

So what happens when you can't access electricity?  Or the weather interfers?  Check out Oakbrook Il Teslas stranded.  I would love a Hybrid when it's time for a new car.  I'll consider an EV when the infrastructure is up to handling the load.   

It depends on where you are. In some states, there is already a robust EV grid. In others, not so much. If it's a fossil-fuel-run red state, there will have been active efforts to discourage the installation of EV chargers, to keep everybody dependent on the gas pumps. In Washington, Oregon, and California, there are public EV chargers everywhere.

What we do need to do nationally is install them at interstate rest stops.

To bad they don't work.

How are ev chargers doing this month in the midwest?

From JD Power

Two years ago, 14.5% of respondents said they’d been unable to charge at a public station. Now it’s 21.4%.

From Business Insider

Electric car charging stations have major reliability issues, a new study found. More than 25% of public DC charging stations in California's Bay Area were unusable, according to researchers.

A study of public electric-vehicle stations in California's Bay Area found that only 72.5% of chargers were operational.

A survey of 1,290 electric-car drivers by a California government agency found that 44% of owners saw operability or payment issues as barriers to charging

  Let's not forget the penchant for California exercising rolling blackouts because of shortages of electrical power. 

My youngest brother has a hybrid and he seems to like it just fine.