Biden’s Energy Secretary’s EV Road Trip Doesn’t Go So Well – Cops Get Called In

These days it seems it has become somewhat of a ritual for journalists or influencers to rent an electric vehicle (EV) and take it out for a road trip to see how it works out.

Usually, those stories end in some kind of disaster such as their timetable being thrown off due to the time it takes to charge their car. And on Sunday, NPR reported on Biden Energy Secretary 👤Jennifer Granholm’s decision to take a four-day road trip with EVs.

The story, titled, “Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy,” details the struggles Granholm’s electric caravan experienced.

It noted Granholm is “a two-term former governor of Michigan, she helped rescue the auto industry during the 2008 global financial crisis, and she’s a longtime EV enthusiast.”

“That makes her uniquely well positioned to envision the future of the auto industry and to sell the dream of what that future could look like,” it argued.

However, the story explained the energy secretary “at times had to grapple with the limitations of the present,” such as the lack of fast charging stations for EVs. And that caused an incident in a suburb of Augusta, Georgia, when her advanced team determined one of their stops was not going to have enough chargers.”

“One of the station’s four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy,” NPR noted. It added, “In fact, a family that was boxed out — on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle — was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved: They called the police.”