Every day, prices for everything from gas to food and rent have risen, and using an electric car as a solution to record-high gas prices appears to avert the worst.
Inflation has accelerated in the year since Biden took office. Rapid price increases may have seemed like a thing of the past. Year-over-year inflation averaged around 2.3 percent per month and only reached 5.0 percent four times.
People are suffering from inflationary whiplash.
Gas prices have risen to $5 per gallon, an increase of more than 58 cents in just a month, and Americans are now opting for EVs, despite the risks and the Biden administration and the rest of the Democratic Party have also been aggressively promoting electric automobiles in recent months as part of their push for so-called “green energy.”
However, Tesla drivers were delayed for hours waiting to charge their cars, after heavy demand caused charging times to double.
Footage of a lengthy queue outside an electric vehicle (EV) charging point in California has been shared online by a citizen.
A video of more than a dozen electric vehicles lined up at what appeared to be a toll booth was posted by Car Coach Reports’ Lauren Fix.
“Still want to buy an EV? Here’s a Tesla charging line in California,” Fix wrote.
Still want to buy an EV? Here’s a Tesla charging line in California:#EV #Charging #Tesla #EVLife #ElectricVehicles #Cars #Autos #ElonMusk pic.twitter.com/ThrewJNvFi
— laurenfix (@laurenfix) July 2, 2022
The video shows a long queue of Tesla vehicles at a Supercharger spot in San Luis Obispo, California.
It appears that the charging station seen in Fix’s video is what it seems to be the same type on the Tesla website that states that a Tesla supercharger is the fastest way to charge a Tesla vehicle. As these chargers can charge the vehicles up to 200 miles of range in 15 minutes, however, it is much longer than it takes to fill up a car with gas. The website also added currently only 35,000 superchargers available globally at this time.
In a report by KTAL-TV, Candace London Metz from Texas shot a similar video of electric cars awaiting charging in March.
Metz had just finished shopping at Sam’s Club and was on her way to dinner when she saw a long line of cars in a shopping mall parking lot. Out of curiosity, she so she turned around pulled into a Sonic Drive-In to get a closer look.
“When I first pulled up, there were only about 10 cars. As I sat there, they just kept coming and more and more got in line. At one point there were over 25 in line,” Metz said.
All of the cars were waiting in line at a charging station, and Metz noticed that there was no one, in particular, running it.
US: A woman from Louisiana filmed a long line of Teslas waiting to charge their cars. It takes over an hour to charge each electric vehicle and the closest charging station is over 100 miles away. pic.twitter.com/eEM9mro1Ba
— Apex World News (@apexworldnews) March 17, 2022
Crews arrived to our first Tesla fire. It was involved in an accident 3 wks ago, and was parked in a wrecking yard. Crews knocked the fire down but it kept reigniting/off-gassing in the battery compartment. Crews created a pit, placed the car inside, and filled the pit with water pic.twitter.com/Lz5b5770lO
— Metro Fire of Sacramento (@metrofirepio) June 12, 2022
Last November, President Biden signed a significant infrastructure bill that provides states with $7.5 billion to build and upgrade electric vehicle charging infrastructure. However, quantity isn’t everything, and many of those stations have poor quality.
Broken screens, poor network access, and malfunctioning payment systems were just a few of the issues.
A survey found that just 72.5 percent of the Bay Area’s public EV charging stations were running. California, which has long been a pioneer in electric and hybrid vehicles, has by far the highest percentage of electric car owners of any state. On the other hand, the charging infrastructure has serious dependability difficulties.
Sources: Wnd, Tesla.com, Westernjournal, Arklatexhomepage
