Political retribution

 

What will Herr Musk think?

 

EV history

The quiet part out loud

A group of GOP Wyoming state lawmakers want to end electric vehicle sales there by 2035, saying the move will help safeguard the oil and gas industries.

  The Hill

Gee, I wonder who funds these lawmakers. At least they're being honest about it, I guess. JFC.

The bill states that citizens and industries would be encouraged not to purchase electric vehicles before the ban goes into effect.

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The legislation said that adding new power charging stations would require “massive” amounts of new power to “sustain the misadventure of electric vehicles.”

MAGA.

GOP, always keeping step with the times.

Fifteen other states, meanwhile, including New York and California, have moved to ban gas-powered vehicle sales. The last clause of the bill instructs Wyoming’s secretary of state to send a copy of the bill to the California governor, who has backed his state’s ban on gas-powered vehicles throughout his governorship.

I'm sure he'll appreciate it. ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Uh-oh

Slight problem.

Saltwater damage from Hurricane Ian has left South Florida with a new danger: electric vehicles (EVs) that spontaneously combust. At least nine EVs have caught fire “without warning,” State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis told ABC News.

Ian was first major hurricane to crash into a region with widespread EV adoption, Eric Frederickson of recycling nonprofit Call2Recycle told ABC.

Saltwater is an electrolyte — a chemical which helps transmit electric charge.

  The Hill

Will insurance companies cover that? Probably deny it as an "act of God."

While the fires have impacted a vanishingly small number of Florida’s EVs, they have become political grist for the state Republican Party.

Well of course it has.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) accused the Department of Transportation in a letter last week of giving “most consumers … the potentially life-threatening misimpression that their EVs will continue functioning properly after saltwater submersion—much like gas-powered vehicles.”

Christ.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.