"One of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can, but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine anymore," Vance said.
It is not an bizarre argument. In many places in cities you cannot charge an EV car at home, not because you have not the plug but simply because you have not the necessary space.
You are right that you just need a wall outlet, but not everywhere the wall outlet and the car are near enough to be doable. A lot of older condo and houses have not a parking spot and if they have it maybe it is not near enough. And when a condo has not a private parking (let it be an underground garage or simply a designated parking space on the ground level) the car is parked on the street and you cannot install dozens of charging station on every street (or use an extension cord dozens meters long)
Then it is true that these days every supermarket has a number of charging stations but I suppose that people would not go to the supermarket just to charge the car and in small town the supermarket maybe is in the nearby town.
It is possible to charge a vehicle from any wall outlet, be that public or private. Just like with a phone. Why not with cars?
True, but you need to be able to charge everywhere you go and as today this is simply not true, the electric grid it not ready and in most countries you have not enough charging station to support the case of even only a 25% fleet of EV car
Add to that, most trips are less than 50 kilometers anyway, so there is also no range argument.
Never said the range is a problem. Oh well, it can be in some cases, like longer trips (too long for a single charge but too short to justify a 2 hours break) but these are edge cases.
Why stick to obsolete technologies if there’s a better alternative, a sovereign alternative.
The better alternative now are not a full EV cars but a hybrid cars.
It is not an bizarre argument. In many places in cities you cannot charge an EV car at home, not because you have not the plug but simply because you have not the necessary space.
You are right that you just need a wall outlet, but not everywhere the wall outlet and the car are near enough to be doable. A lot of older condo and houses have not a parking spot and if they have it maybe it is not near enough. And when a condo has not a private parking (let it be an underground garage or simply a designated parking space on the ground level) the car is parked on the street and you cannot install dozens of charging station on every street (or use an extension cord dozens meters long)
Then it is true that these days every supermarket has a number of charging stations but I suppose that people would not go to the supermarket just to charge the car and in small town the supermarket maybe is in the nearby town.
True, but you need to be able to charge everywhere you go and as today this is simply not true, the electric grid it not ready and in most countries you have not enough charging station to support the case of even only a 25% fleet of EV car
Never said the range is a problem. Oh well, it can be in some cases, like longer trips (too long for a single charge but too short to justify a 2 hours break) but these are edge cases.
The better alternative now are not a full EV cars but a hybrid cars.