President Biden has tweeted out a video showing national climate advisor Gina McCarthy and secretary of energy Jennifer Granholm going for a spin in a first-generation Chevy Bolt EV and laying praise on the battery-electric hatch.
Folks, I’m a car guy – and I firmly believe the future is electric. Gina McCarthy and Secretary Granholm hit the road to talk about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework’s historic investments in electric vehicles and how we’re going to ensure the future is made in America. pic.twitter.com/xZDXu7BpXr
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 1, 2021
This video was released following the release of President Biden’s new infrastructure bill, which includes funding to build a new nationwide charging network with 500,000 individual vehicle chargers. As such, it attempts to address some of the most pressing issues with regard to electric vehicle adoption and explain what the current administration is doing to help consumers get over these hurdles.
In the four-minute clip, McCarthy picks up Granholm in a black Chevy Bolt EV, which is part of the federal vehicle fleet. Granholm then reveals that she is a Chevy Bolt EV owner and has experienced range anxiety in her car – particularly when driving on the highway for long periods of time. Granholm then explains that EV owners will be “totally carefree,” with regard to their vehicle’s range of Biden’s infrastructure package gets passed, as there will be charging stations littered along interstate highways and other major roadways to help drive EV adoption.
The conversation then turns toward climate change and how EV adoption and other advancements in the transportation industry can help preserve the planet for future generations.
“The challenge of climate change is a real one, but the great thing is we have so many things like this electric vehicle that aren’t a sacrifice,” McCarthy says in the clip. “They are an improvement for our lives, an improvement for our pocketbooks.”
Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bill also includes $174 billion in point of sale rebates and tax incentives for EVs to help encourage consumers to purchase battery-powered vehicles over ICE ones. The administration also plans to electrify the entire federal vehicle fleet, which could cost upwards of $20 billion, and will electrify at least 20 percent of America’s yellow school bus fleets through the new Clean Buses for Kids Program run by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Oh, the comments here are going to get political.
Richard P.
I think Republicans are just bitter. No one actually believes that Trump won the election.
Except everyone.
Yeah, I got my popcorn ready
Biden Tweets. OMG there ought to be a firestorm… oh wait a minute… suddenly it’s all OK. But once you have to start finding minerals used to make batteries and trying to get rid of what’s left of the old batteries these aren’t so green after all. Way to go lefty tree huggers.
Elon Musk’s brother started a company that specializes in battery recycling, and he states that about 90% of all materials and minerals in todays batteries can be recycled. You can’t recycle an ICE…. So what’s your point?
You can’t recycle an ICE ? Hell they’ve been doing it for years man.
That ICE recycling need new parts made from mined materials. So that makes it three times more contamination than an EV or its battery.
Lol, wat? 🤔🤨🤣🤣
I guess you have never heard of a salvage yard where complete vehicles are recycled. Some parts such as an alternator or door handle are sold to consumers and repair shops. Some parts go to remanufacturing companies. Plastic, glass, rubber and metal is recycled. Even the fluids are recycled. The recycle materials likely will be used to make your future electric car.
Let’s see. A failed far left governor that trashed Michigan and rode off to Cal Berkley since she couldn’t live in the mess she made and a far left administrative hack. That’s enough to get me to run to the Chevy dealer tomorrow morning and buy a Bolt 🙄
It’s just about enough to get me to run for the hills and hide 😉
Please do. But watch out for wildfires.
Go and buy it!
No, I prefer my gas guzzling carbon spewing ICE powered truck.
You’ll have to drive an electric no matter what you prefer, as adults we should think wisely instead of “preferring things”.
When the government tells me what I “have” to drive, we lost our nation and our democracy.
The words President and Biden simply do not go together. Beijing Joe can’t distinguish between Syria and Libya let alone draft a tweet or a text.
These types of comments from our President deserve praise. He is a man trying to unite not divide this nation.
He is an agent of the deep state. Spent his entire career lying, cheating and grifting around the globe. Learn to read.
That’s “FAKE” potus bite me. There, fixed it for you
Trying to figure out why GM authority would put an article like this in their report, knowing that this will create a big fuss among its readers. Look like a little of Fox news strategy to increase viewership.
According to the Biden Manifesto on his website, EV (a leverge) is part of the plan to persuade his people and the undecided. Fund the movement with incentives to corporations and they follow, once corporations are on board after taking gov’t funding, corporations can make crazy incentives for the people in unison with the gov’t tax incentives. I’m reading the “people influenced in this thread” convinced Biden is the way to follow…
Corporations could care less about EV and recycling of EV batteries…they’re fighting other corporations to be part of the gov’t funding or dishing out millions to stay open and create jobs for the shareholders.
Just like an alcohol commercial, fun under the sun on a beach with a hot babe out of your class soaking down a cold beer on your million dollar beach house with 200k cars in each of the 12 garages… a 12 yr old to 25 yr old pictures themself on that beach…. right…
Picture yourself in an all EV world running errands and socializing with other EV drivers at the EV charging stations having cold refreshments chewing the fat with other EVers watching reruns of old ICE cars polluting while you wait for your charge to be completed… so much fun… can’t wait to get mine…
I’m having an extremely hard time comprehending what exactly I just read.