This tweet caught my eye:
When people ask “why do you oppose a network of publicly funded electric car charging stations in the transportation bill?” I show them a picture of the Tesla supercharging network built w/ private money on private property. (Driving my Tesla home today to avoid masks on planes.) pic.twitter.com/JtwK2u0Mlq
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 31, 2021
When Representative Massie (R-KY 4th District) was asked about the time it took, he replied:
The trip requires 7 hours in an ICE vehicle or just over 9 hours in my Tesla. YMMV
Three well planned 40 minute charging stops
Or
Two well planned 1:10 stops
Or
in the cold, without planning, the trip can take longer than 10 hours in the EV.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 31, 2021
Mr Massie is, of course, a free citizen, and I absolutely support his right to choose which vehicle he wishes to drive. But that map shows just what it’s like, because once you get away from the northeast corridor, your stops better be well-planned, or you’re going to run out of sparktricity along the way. If I’m reading that map correctly, and Mr Massie is taking Interstate 64, there are charging stations in Charleston, West Virginia, Huntington, WV, and then the next one is in Lexington. May the Lord help the Distinguished Gentleman from Kentucky if one of his well planned stops is at a Tesla TSLA: (%) station that is out-of-service for some reason.
Charleston and Huntington are not that far apart, roughly an hour along I-64. Mr Massie’s home in Lewis County isn’t that far from Huntington.
But what Mr Massie has told us, that so many don’t want to acknowledge, is that to make the roughly 475 mile trip, which would take 7 hours in a gasoline powered car, takes two hours longer in his Tesla due to the length of time it takes to recharge the infernal thing. He is obviously willing to take that extra time — at least, is willing to avoid the idiotic mask mandate aboard commercial airliners — but people considering electric vehicles need to be aware of this. And the people pushing these vehicles on other people should not only be aware of this, but willing to tell the truth about it.
The truth is in short supply among the left.