U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm embarked on a four-day road trip in an electric vehicle this summer and faced a few issues, including trouble locating chargers, long downtimes as batteries slowly refilled, and even having the police called on her.
Granholm drove from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Memphis, Tennessee, in an attempt to draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars, according to aThe U.S. Secretary of Energy even made passionate town hall stops along the way, advocating for reshaping Americans’ lives by transitioning from gas-powered vehicles to electric.“Things are happening fast. You are in the center of it.
“One of the station’s four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy,” NPR reported. Another issue the energy secretary ran into was despite “painstakingly” mapping out the trip ahead of time to be sure there would be enough chargers, her team had to stop at hotels with slower “Level 2” plugs for overnight charging, and then pause at superfast chargers between cities. This meant extra work that gas-powered vehicles do not require.
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