America’s deep freeze is a fitting end to Democrats’ electric car nightmare
Opinion by Diana Furchtgott-Roth • 19h
With 90 million people still in the path of the snow and ice storms sweeping across America, motorists can particularly appreciate president Donald J Trump’s Day 1 executive order eliminating automobile manufacturers’ requirements to sell electric vehicles.
How appropriate that the president signed his executive order on one of the coldest days of the year. Electric vehicles are estimated to lose an average of 20 per cent of their battery range in cold weather. Research has found that, in freezing temperatures, a Tesla Model X (with a heat pump) loses 11 per cent of normal range. A Volkswagen ID.4 loses 37 per cent.
Americans love choice, and drivers want to be able to choose their cars. Eight per cent of cars sold in 2024 were battery-powered electric, but president Joe Biden ordered his Environmental Protection Agency and his Department of Transportation to issue unpopular regulations that could have required the majority of all new passenger cars sold and a quarter of heavy lorries to be battery-powered electric by 2032.
President Trump has promised to undo these regulations and get rid of electric vehicle subsidies for manufacturers and drivers.
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