Full Disclosure: My wife and I drive a four-year-old hybrid sedan. It runs on the electric motor up to 15 miles-per-hour before the gasoline engine engages. It feels and sounds like it’s dead at stop signs. It averages 44 miles-per-gallon in highway driving. But it’s a hybrid, not an all-electric vehicle.
U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts has vowed to use every tool he has to fight President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandates. Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen has signed a letter to Biden as one of 16 Governors also opposed to the mandate that two out of every three vehicles be battery electrics by 2032.
Ricketts and Pillen and the other 15 governors are all Republicans, but I don’t consider politics as the driving factor here. It’s something as laudable as saying consumers and the marketplace should guide growth for electric vehicles. It’s something as practical as Nebraska’s recent cold snap and the lack of recharging infrastructure.
