Joe Biden Takes a Spin in a Hummer EV at Factory Zero
U.S. President Joe Biden has successfully pushed through his plan for U.S. infrastructure. It will sprinkle billions on a number of sectors, with the goal of repairing bridges, improving the rail network, investing in airport locations… and electrification of the transportation sector.
That last goal has of course been a longstanding one of the Democrat president.
What caught our attention this week, however, was the president's visit to General Motors’ Factory Zero plant in Detroit, which makes electric vehicles. He used the opportunity to argue that the $7.5 billion in new charger legislation will help the U.S. improve its balance sheet. Currently, the U.S. market share of plug-in electric model sales is one-third the size of the Chinese electric market.
“China got way ahead of us,” the president said bluntly.
Questions of politics aside, we were interested particularly to see the U.S. president, an avowed car-lover who owns a cherished 1967 Chevrolet Corvette, take a short spin in a GMC Hummer EV.
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