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Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts

John Stossel says politicians and activists who want all cars to go electric are guilty of magical thinking. But most of what politicians, activists and electric car sellers say about electric cars is just wrong.

Fact is, electric car sales are up 66 percent this year and Joe Biden says the future is “electric and there’s no turning back.” Adding fuel to that statement, liberal states like California and New York are banning sales of new gas-powered vehicles completely. We’re told they’ll help us use less oil.

Stossel says it just can’t happen. In the following two-part series, he points out a series of inconvenient facts about electric cars that politicians and activists just don’t understand. Here’s his report.