Trump is right: EV range anxiety is a disease – THIS is how we cure it!
About this episode
The episode discusses Donald Trump's comments on electric vehicle range anxiety and proposes solutions to improve visibility of charging stations.
On today's time-sensitive episode of Quick Charge , we revisit the idea that even a broken clock is right twice a day as we examine US President Donald Trump's takes on electric vehicles, range anxiety, highway road signs, and why he's absolutely right . The Donald and I don't see eye-to-eye too often, but when he called range anxiety a disease at a Las Vegas political rally last week, he hit on something wasn't just true – but which was at the very root of the range anxiety phenomenon : visibility . If you blinked (blunk?) and missed it, President Trump commented on the fact that you never almost see highway signs advertising electric vehicle charging . And while, sure – you might see that kind of thing in California or in the swankier parts of Austin or Scottsdale, you almost never see it on highway signs in what are dismissively referred to as "the flyover states," and that absolutely matters. In this episode, I lay out my case for highway signs serving as the bedrock of American drivers' confidence in the petroleum-power infrastructure, and how a simple change in the way we look at highway signs could eliminate range anxiety forever. Until that happens, though, there's GM…
People in this episode
Host: 9to5Mac
Topics covered
- electric vehicles
- range anxiety
- highway signs
- visibility
- technology
- politics
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: GM
Products: GM Energy Pass
Places: Las Vegas, California, Austin, Scottsdale, flyover states
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