If you're explaining, you're losing.
Daily Caller (11/13/23) reports: "The Biden administration is rolling out new talking points to reassure Americans of the promise of the electric vehicle (EV) market, but energy industry experts aren’t buying them. The Department of Energy (DOE) published rebuttals on Thursday in order to '[correct] the record on electric vehicle sales' and reject 'myths' about the industry, amid a flurry of headlines suggesting that the industry is on shaky footing. The DOE aimed to take down 'myths' about EV sales numbers, charging infrastructure, consumer interest and pricing, but the agency’s talking points do not directly address the main problems that critics have specifically identified with the industry, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Biden administration is aiming to have 50% of all new vehicle sales be EVs by 2030, aggressively regulating markets and spending billions to facilitate that goal. However, a slew of problems, ranging from labor unrest to interest rates and inherent deficiencies of EVs, have combined to hinder the industry at a time when the Biden administration is counting on it to ramp up its EV production and sales. 'The truth is, familiarity with EVs seems to breed contempt, with most people having them as second, third or fourth vehicles so they will have something reliable,' Dan Kish, a senior research fellow for the Institute for Energy Research, told the DCNF. 'Since most of the buyers are wealthy, they’re the people who can afford EVs, unlike regular Americans who can no longer afford to buy a car, period, under Bidenomics.'"
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