Electric Vehicle Calculations Don’t Add Up

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Electric Vehicle Calculations Don’t Add Up

Antonio Graceffo  |  Jun. 1, 2024  |  11:20 am

According to the Federal Highway Administration, there are over 280 million registered vehicles in the United States, including cars, trucks, and motorcycles. President Biden’s plan aims to replace 67% of these vehicles with electric ones by 2032. While China, which produces 80% of the batteries, would benefit, American consumers and the environment would suffer as a result.

First, purchasing an electric vehicle (EV) is expensive. On average, the purchase price of an EV is currently $26,000 more than a gasoline-powered car. Next, using an EV as a primary vehicle or for long family trips is extremely problematic. They have a short range of only 291 miles on average, compared to 400 miles for gasoline-powered cars. Additionally, they have long charging times and reduced performance at temperatures below 40°F or above 90°F. On extremely cold days, the range of the battery can decrease by as much as 50%. Consequently, EVs may not be suitable for use in most northern states or out west, where temperatures range from very high to very low.

According to the Department of Transportation, depending on the type of EV you buy, recharging to 80% capacity can take anywhere from 20 minutes to 10 hours. The reason why 80% capacity is often cited in literature is that the top 20% and bottom 20% of the EV battery are either unusable or not recommended for use. This fact significantly affects the actual range of an EV compared to the range cited by environmentalists.

They claim that this switch is being done to save the environment, but with charging times of up to 10 hours, every American home would need at least one charger. Since most homes have more than one car, multiple chargers would be necessary. If public recharging stations on highways had fast chargers that only require 20 minutes to fill a battery to 80%, far more of these chargers would be needed than the gas pumps that exist today.  .  .

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President Biden’s plan aims to replace 67% of these vehicles with electric ones by 2032.

A coalition of 26 state attorneys general has filed suit:

Attorney General Morrisey Co-leads Coalition in Challenge to Biden Administration’s Latest Push in a Long Line of EV Mandates

CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is co-leading with Kentucky a coalition of 26 states in challenging the Biden administration’s latest attempt to drive gas-powered vehicles off the road.
 
The coalition has filed the challenge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to block the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s strict fuel efficiency standards— the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
 
The new rule requires car manufacturers to dramatically increase the average fuel economy of passenger cars and light trucks in less than a decade. It imposes unworkable standards that leverage the weight of the federal government to require auto manufacturers to produce more electric vehicles. The forced transition to EVs would bypass the free market while increasing costs on families and undermining the reliability of the electric grid.
 
“Congress did not give the NHTSA such power to reshape an industry in a way that would ultimately hurt the pocketbooks of consumers— this rule is legally flawed and unrealistic,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “This will undoubtedly cause the United States to be dependent on other nations like China for our energy needs and will undermine American energy security by increasing demand and strain power grids. And NHTSA is taking this action even though Congress instructed that it was not to consider electric vehicles when setting fuel standards.”
 
“The Biden administration’s mission seems to be to cripple the economy, increase inflation and prolong the suffering of millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet—all while ignoring the boundaries of the law.”
 
Attorney General Morrisey led a coalition of 26 states in a letter opposing the CAFE standards proposal when it was unveiled last year.
 
The rule places more strain and demand on the nation’s energy grids—the grids won’t have the baseload capacity to take on even more demand from electric vehicles, particularly in the off-hours that people charge these cars.
 
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming joined the West Virginia- and Kentucky led challenge.

Read the pleading here: https://ago.wv.gov/Documents/CAFE%20standards.pdf