Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm's staff was involved in a stand-off with a family who called the police over a contested electric charging station.
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm loudly implored Americans to take climate change seriously during an interview Friday.had a rocky electric vehicle tour that included a confrontation with a family who called the police on her staff over a charging station standoff.
The four-day trip from North Carolina to Tennessee was"intended to draw attention to the billions of dollars theGranholm's ambitious southern trip that was"painstakingly mapped out ahead of time to allow for charging," however, drew the ire of one family in particular, due to a familiar problem for electric car vehicle drivers.
"But between stops, Granholm's entourage at times had to grapple with the limitations of the present," NPR's Camila Domonoske, who accompanied her on the trip, wrote. After Granholm's staff realized there weren't enough charging spots for electric vehicles at a stop near Augusta, Ga.,"anstaffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy.
For most electric car drivers, if they have a charging station at home, their typical daily routines allow them to avoid those situations that Granholm's team encountered. But even a new all-electric Chevy Bolt – described as"affordable" in the NPR story – starts at more than $27,000, according to the Chevrolet website. Many other all-electric cars are still prohibitively expensive for American families.
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