Electric vehicles could make up nearly half the fleet of passenger cars and trucks by 2040. But oil and gas companies are striking back.
The oil industry is trying to crush the booming electric car movement. Groups backed by industry giants like Exxon Mobil and the Koch empire are waging a state-by-state, multimillion-dollar battle to squelch utilities’ plans to build charging stations across the country. Environmentalists call the fight a reprise of the “Who Killed the Electric Car?” battles that doomed an earlier generation of battery-driven vehicles in the 1990s. Full story by Gavin Blade in Politico.
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Paul/Jane Fransioli
9/24/2019 07:42:05 pm
Would be interested in some of the ways groups could pressure these companies: Koch and Mobil Exxon, to stop what they're doing to electric cars. Leave a Reply. |
