{"id":21280,"date":"2023-08-19T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ordealers.net\/?p=21280"},"modified":"2024-07-19T23:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T23:11:59","slug":"reality-check-ford-ceo-struggles-to-charge-ev-during-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordealers.net\/?p=21280","title":{"rendered":"‘Reality Check’: Ford CEO Struggles to Charge EV During Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Biden has spent billions to push Americans to adopt electric vehicles despite charging challenges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alec Schemmel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 18, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ford CEO Jim Farley said he faced a “reality check” while attempting to charge his electric truck during a road trip across the American West, an admission that comes as President Joe Biden spends billions to spur electric vehicle adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farley embarked<\/a> on the trip in Ford\u2019s new electric F-150 Lightning last week in an attempt to “see the EV transition in action.” He started in Silicon Valley, made a stop in Los Angeles, and then ended in Las Vegas. Farley documented much of the trip on social media, including his late-night charging sessions and the “challenging” nature of obtaining enough power to travel long distances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Charging has been pretty challenging,” Farley said<\/a>, adding that at one stop it took him 40 minutes to charge his truck’s battery to just 40 percent. “It was a really good reality check\u2014the challenges of what our customers go through.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lack of reliable charging stations is a common concern for electric vehicle drivers. That concern, however, has not stopped the Biden administration from proposing rules that would effectively require<\/a> automakers to ensure two-thirds of the vehicles they sell are electric by 2032. President Joe Biden is also using his so-called Inflation Reduction Act to spend billions of dollars in an attempt to spur American consumers to adopt electric vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farley\u2019s social media posts gave insight into the hurdles associated with driving electric vehicles over long distances. In one post, Farley asked<\/a> his social media followers to share their experiences with charging on the road. “I too charged and traveled Houston to Phoenix 1100 miles,” one user responded<\/a>. “Not the greatest, many slow, many broken,” the user said of the charging stations he encountered on the drive. Farley acknowledged<\/a> in other posts that finding a charging station wasn\u2019t always easy, telling<\/a> one user he had to go to multiple stations just to find one that was available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Farley nonetheless praised other aspects of Ford\u2019s new F-150 Lightning, including its front-end trunk he called a “frunk” and the “community of EV drivers” he met while waiting at charging stations. The Ford CEO also displayed the truck\u2019s ability to power non-travel related tasks, like helping jump a disabled individual\u2019s electric scooter and powering the inflation of a children\u2019s bouncehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, the Biden administration unveiled<\/a> a new rule to limit tailpipe emissions, which is aimed at ensuring two-thirds of new vehicles are electric by 2032. That benchmark far exceeded Biden\u2019s 2021 executive order pushing for half of all vehicles sold by 2030 to be zero-emission. Still, getting drivers to hop on board with the EV transition has been difficult. Last year, just 6 percent of vehicles sold were electric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published under:<\/strong> Climate Change<\/a> , Electric Cars<\/a> , Environmentalism<\/a> , Ford<\/a> , Green Energy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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