Energy Department Secretary Jennifer Granholm had a not-so-brilliant idea. She'd make a four-day tour from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Memphis, Tennessee, to prove how easy summer road trips are in electric vehicles.
She ended up with an irate family trapped with their baby in a sweltering electric car calling the police because Granholm’s advance team, in a gasoline-fueled vehicle, was blocking the only available charging station in Grovetown, Georgia.The police couldn't do anything because, apparently, it is legal for a non-EV car to hold a charging spot for an electric vehicle that is not yet there. But Republicans in Congress can do something to make sure this scene doesn’t play out again.
Regions such as the southeast and mountain west don’t have stations outside urban areas, which makes electric road trips impossible. It's bad enough letting California bankrupt its citizens by making them drive cars they can’t afford. But 17 states link their emissions standards automatically to California's, and some are in regions with spotty charging coverage, such as Colorado and Virginia.
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