The former US president has corrected some statements made in the past few days, underlining how the support of Tesla’s boss requires him to be in favor of electric mobility (at least in part)
There are no elections that capture the world’s attention like the US ones, where every word is recorded and weighed. As is well known, the Republicans’ return to the White House is at stake. Donald Trump. The former US president is a “statement machine”, a characteristic that has contributed to making him very popular, but which has also sometimes forced him to make some public U-turns. The latest of which concerns electric cars: after having lashed out against plug-in vehicles in an interview with National Association of Black JournalistsTrump had to backtrack at one of his rallies. The reason? Elon Musk’s supportas underlined by the former president himself with these words: “Elon has guaranteed me his support, so I am in favor of the electric car, I have no choice”. The support of the Tesla boss has forced Trump to soften his opinion on electric mobility, against which the former president had already thundered during the UAW union strike in the fall of 2023.
partial opening, but the numbers told…
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Donald Trump wanted to emphasize that he is in favor of electric cars as one of the market alternativesunlike the Democrats who, according to the former president, would like to impose them as the only option. To support his position against a “mass electrification” of the automotive market, Trump resorted to numbers, claiming that in the Midwest 9 billion dollars were spent on 8 charging stations. A highly inflated figure, at least according to the data reported by the magazine Politicowhich highlights how the bipartisan infrastructure bill has allocated $7.5 billion to build charging stations across the United States. About $770,000 of this state funding is spent on each station.
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2024-08-12 01:08:53
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