{"id":6943,"date":"2022-01-04T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2022-01-04T20:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:15:59","slug":"the-downside-to-bidens-electric-vehicle-charging-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6943","title":{"rendered":"The downside to Biden\u2019s electric vehicle charging plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“to build 500,000 chargers with half the budget, the Biden administration will have to opt for slower chargers. (The faster the charger, the more expensive it is to install.) The Biden administration\u2019s plan, which draws on funds from the recently passed<\/a> $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, prioritizes<\/a> chargers that take hours to fully charge an electric car \u2014 a potentially hard sell for Americans who are used to filling gas tanks from empty to full in minutes. And while more chargers are great, the plan is an indicator of just how watered-down Biden\u2019s energy policies have become over the last year. Democrats still haven\u2019t been able to agree<\/a> on a clean energy plan, and without one in place, those EV chargers could just end up getting their energy from fossil fuel sources.”
…
“There are currently three different types<\/a>, or levels, of electric vehicle chargers. Level 1 chargers plug into a regular 120-volt power outlet and deliver power to electric cars at a glacial three to five miles of range per hour. At that rate, it would take a couple of days for most cars to go from empty to fully charge. Level 2 chargers convert the 120-volt connection to about 240 volts, charging cars around 10 times faster than Level 1 chargers and bringing a battery to full within a few hours. Level 3 chargers, also called DC fast chargers, are the fastest of the lot. They add anywhere from three to 20 miles of range per minute.<\/em>That means your car can be about 80 percent charged in the time it takes you to use the bathroom and grab a cup of coffee at a rest stop.”   
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“industry experts say, we don\u2019t really need every charger to be a fast charger \u2014 which is why the Biden administration\u2019s charging framework just might work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a temptation to recreate the gas station model, where we say, \u2018Oh I\u2019m low on fuel, I need to go fill up now and be on my way in five minutes,\u2019\u201d Joe Britton, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, told Recode. \u201cThat would be a mistake.\u201d (Just don\u2019t tell Harris, who said charging the Volt was \u201cjust like filling up your car with gas.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Britton said, it\u2019s important to consider how most people actually use their cars on a regular day. Most folks aren\u2019t driving hundreds of miles each day; they\u2019re driving between home and work or running errands around town. For those folks, Level 2 chargers would work just fine. They can charge their cars at home, drive to a grocery store, plug in at the parking lot, and drive back home with a full battery. So while the Biden plan does include strategically installing faster chargers along highways and in rural areas, the focus on building lots of Level 2 chargers in local communities is a way to stretch that $7.5 billion a long way.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Despite being home to EV pioneers like Tesla and GM, the US lags far behind<\/a> Europe and China in electric vehicle sales. The majority of American EV sales are also concentrated in major metropolitan areas, with nearly half<\/a> of all EV sales in California alone.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Studies have\u00a0shown<\/a>\u00a0that electric cars drawing power from coal-heavy grids can actually be worse for the climate than hybrids. And so far, the president\u2019s attempts to clean up the grid have been repeatedly thwarted by Senator\u00a0Joe Manchin<\/a>\u00a0of West Virginia, who single-handedly\u00a0gutted<\/a>\u00a0a proposal to replace coal- and gas-powered plants with solar, wind, and nuclear energy. Most of the energy policy that\u00a0remains<\/a>\u00a0in Biden\u2019s signature Build Back Better bill revolves around tax credits for clean energy, with few penalties for continued pollution-heavy energy production.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2021\/12\/15\/22838211\/ev-charging-biden-tesla-supercharger-rivian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“to build 500,000 chargers with half the budget, the Biden administration will have to opt for slower chargers. (The faster the charger, the more expensive it is to install.) The Biden administration\u2019s plan, which draws on funds from the recently passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, prioritizes chargers that take hours to fully charge an electric car \u2014 a potentially hard sell for Americans who are used to filling gas tanks from empty to full in minutes. And while more chargers are great, the plan is an indicator of just how watered-down Biden\u2019s energy policies have become over the last year. Democrats still haven\u2019t been able to agree on a clean energy plan, and without one in place, those EV chargers could just end up getting their energy from fossil fuel sources.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“There are currently three different types, or levels, of electric vehicle chargers. Level 1 chargers plug into a regular 120-volt power outlet and deliver power to electric cars at a glacial three to five miles of range per hour. At that rate, it would take a couple of days for most cars to go from empty to fully charge. Level 2 chargers convert the 120-volt connection to about 240 volts, charging cars around 10 times faster than Level 1 chargers and bringing a battery to full within a few hours. Level 3 chargers, also called DC fast chargers, are the fastest of the lot. They add anywhere from three to 20 miles of range per minute.That means your car can be about 80 percent charged in the time it takes you to use the bathroom and grab a cup of coffee at a rest stop.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“industry experts say, we don\u2019t really need every charger to be a fast charger \u2014 which is why the Biden administration\u2019s charging framework just might work.
\n\u201cThere\u2019s a temptation to recreate the gas station model, where we say, \u2018Oh I\u2019m low on fuel, I need to go fill up now and be on my way in five minutes,\u2019\u201d Joe Britton, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, told Recode. \u201cThat would be a mistake.\u201d (Just don\u2019t tell Harris, who said charging the Volt was \u201cjust like filling up your car with gas.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Instead, Britton said, it\u2019s important to consider how most people actually use their cars on a regular day. Most folks aren\u2019t driving hundreds of miles each day; they\u2019re driving between home and work or running errands around town. For those folks, Level 2 chargers would work just fine. They can charge their cars at home, drive to a grocery store, plug in at the parking lot, and drive back home with a full battery. So while the Biden plan does include strategically installing faster chargers along highways and in rural areas, the focus on building lots of Level 2 chargers in local communities is a way to stretch that $7.5 billion a long way.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Despite being home to EV pioneers like Tesla and GM, the US lags far behind Europe and China in electric vehicle sales. The majority of American EV sales are also concentrated in major metropolitan areas, with nearly half of all EV sales in California alone.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Studies have shown that electric cars drawing power from coal-heavy grids can actually be worse for the climate than hybrids. And so far, the president\u2019s attempts to clean up the grid have been repeatedly thwarted by Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who single-handedly gutted a proposal to replace coal- and gas-powered plants with solar, wind, and nuclear energy. Most of the energy policy that remains in Biden\u2019s signature Build Back Better bill revolves around tax credits for clean energy, with few penalties for continued pollution-heavy energy production.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[237,105,1296,1504,913,235,104,1247,780,1112],"class_list":["post-6943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-coal","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-global-warming","tag-infrastructure","tag-joe-biden","tag-low-carbon-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6944,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}