SoCal is a favorable environment for the physical operation of EVs. Add in virtue signalling, and I can see why there are a lot of them there.

Where I live in North Dakota, It is hard to think of a much more hostile environment to the physical operation of an EV. Cold, with -30 not unusual in winter, frequent high winds, snow, etc. You can't just drive, you have to defrost the windows and heat the cabin, too.

It is common for larger towns to be 100-130 miles apart, and trips to medical specialists commonly mean a 250 mile trip--one way, bad enough when you are not well in an ICE powered vehicle, I can't imagine waiting on the vehicle to charge, too.

In summer, with our continental climate, we hit the triple digits, too. Annual temperature range can easily be 130 degrees, and I have seen it near 170.

For those who wonder why I am not a supporter of EVs and the gasoline powered vehicle 'phase out', it is that sooner or later, with the way things are going, Some bloody twit (or an assemblage thereof) is going to try to take my vehicles away, one way or another, claiming that MY vehicle is causing global warming, which is supposed the "climate change" they are bandying about.

I spent my career locating and identifying a reliable, proven (for over 100 years) motor fuel source. Now people from elsewhere, often two thousand miles away, want to dictate what I can or cannot use from places where the weather here is simply unimaginable.

If you can grow citrus trees, pecans, avocados, or even Magnolias, maybe an EV will work for you.

Those species will freeze here, dead in the first winter. EVs don't work well here.
Sales and registrations prove this. From: https://www.badgerinstitute.org/numbers/electric-vehicles-as-a-percentage-of-all-registered-vehicles/




Aside from a very few folks, (likely city dwellers who use them in town, and a few owned by a pizza franchise--two of which died this winter), we just aren't willing to bet our lives on the technology. We know what works.

Honestly, we’d be better off with a team of draft horses.

Justice Thomas raised crucial question about legitimacy of special counsel's prosecution of Trump

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas raised a question Thursday that goes to the heart of Special Counsel Jack Smith's charges against former President Donald Trump.

The high court was considering Trump's argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president, but another issue is whether Smith and the Office of Special Counsel have the authority to bring charges at all.

"Did you, in this litigation, challenge the appointment of special counsel?" Thomas asked Trump attorney John Sauer on Thursday during a nearly three-hour session at the Supreme Court.

Sauer replied that Trump's attorneys had not raised that concern "directly" in the current Supreme Court case — in which justices are considering Trump's arguments that presidential immunity precludes the prosecution of charges that the former president illegally sought to overturn the 2020 election.

Sauer told Thomas that, "we totally agree with the analysis provided by Attorney General Meese [III] and Attorney General Mukasey."

"It points to a very important issue here because one of [the special counsel's] arguments is, of course, that we should have this presumption of regularity. That runs into the reality that we have here an extraordinary prosecutorial power being exercised by someone who was never nominated by the president or confirmed by the Senate at any time. So we agree with that position. We hadn't raised it yet in this case when this case went up on appeal," Sauer said............

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-thomas-raised-crucial-question-about-legitimacy-special-counsels-prosecution-trump

Fifteen acres of solar panels to power that plant.  Still not sure how they power it at night, but it would take a gargantuan amount of batteries to source 480 VAC for basic plant operation.  I suspect they have worked out a tradeoff with normal power generation where they supply excess power to the grid during the day and recover that power back at night.  Which means that even though they can claim to net zero, they are still dependent on nighttime power generation from other sources. 

And fifteen acres of land?   That's a heck of an impact on nature.  Fifteen acres no longer available for anything else, including CO₂ removal by a typical forest.



https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2023/05/solar-project-powers-all-of-black-deckers-kentucky-factory/

Fifteen acres that could be used to grow food. What an absolute waste of land and those promoting going green are tying to convince people that they're saving the planet.  What a crock.

Fifteen acres of solar panels to power that plant.  Still not sure how they power it at night, but it would take a gargantuan amount of batteries to source 480 VAC for basic plant operation.  I suspect they have worked out a tradeoff with normal power generation where they supply excess power to the grid during the day and recover that power back at night.  Which means that even though they can claim to net zero, they are still dependent on nighttime power generation from other sources. 

And fifteen acres of land?   That's a heck of an impact on nature.  Fifteen acres no longer available for anything else, including CO₂ removal by a typical forest.



https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2023/05/solar-project-powers-all-of-black-deckers-kentucky-factory/

And what happens if there's a hailstorm? They just close the doors for awhile?

Roberts is the mess.  He has abandoned all moorings to the Constitution, and finds depending on who's blackmailing him at the moment.