The current governor of California – and likely top-tier contender for the presidency as a “Democrat” (as Communists prefer to style themselves) come 2028 – is claiming that there are 48 percent more places to recharge a device in his state than there are places to fill up a tank.
“The California EV driver experience is getting better by the day,” Newsom said. “The state will continue to heavily invest in EV infrastructure, with particular emphasis in hard-to-reach areas, making these vehicles an easy choice for new car buyers.”
Of course, what he said isn’t true – as is usually true when Communists say things. As for example when they insisted there was such a thing as “asymptomatic” spread during the fomented mass-panic event they marketed as “COVID.” And – of course – that wearing a maaaaask “worked.” Which was actually true – just not in the sense most people were led to believe was true. Maaaaaaaasks were extremely effective at getting people to believe there was a “pandemic” afoot – by making it appear as if one was afoot.
Anyhow, it’s the same thing here – in that only 10 percent of the touted 48 percent are Level 3 commercial “fast” chargers, where it only takes 15-20 minutes to recover a partial charge. The other 38 percent are Level 2 and Level 1 chargers, the kind now required by code to be installed in the garages of new homes in California. Meaning, everyone who buys a new home is forced to pay to have them installed in their homes, whether they own a device to plug it into being an irrelevance, of a piece with being forced to wear a maaaaaaaaask even though you weren’t sick.
These can recharge a device in as little as 8 hours or so (Level 2, which uses a 240V electric dryer-type outlet) or as long as a day or two (Level 1, which is just a common 120V household outlet).
In terms of the actual numbers, there are 178,549 EV chargers all told on CA as of early 2025 – as opposed to 120,000 gas pump nozzles. That makes it sound like it’d be easier to drive a device in CA rather than a vehicle because of the abundance of places to charge one up. But Newsom doesn’t explain that “48 percent” is really just 10 percent – and that amounts to just 16,971 Level 3 “fast” chargers vs. about seven times as many gas pump nozzles – all of which are fast.
Meaning, one can fill up the tank in about three minutes. This makes it extremely easy to drive a vehicle because no matter what its range may be on a full tank, it isn’t a limitation because the tank can be refilled again in three minutes or so when it’s empty. It’s not-so-fast with battery powered devices – even at a Level 3 “fast” charger. Unless you don’t consider a 15-20 minute to be a bother.
This makes range a very important factor – unless you have the time to wait.
Most people usually don’t.
Even for “only” 15-20 minutes, which is a lot longer than it sounds when you have someplace you need to be, such as work. Or your kid’s band performance. You can try to avoid not making it on time to where you need to be by planning your charging waits ahead of time. But as everyone knows, plans sometimes don’t work out. Especially when you forgot to plan – something that happens to pretty much everyone every now and then.
Or because something happened you couldn’t plan for.
The gas-engined vehicle eliminated this hassle, which accounts for the gas-engined vehicle’s elimination of the battery-powered vehicle from the roads more than 100 years ago. It took Communism – green this time rather than red – to bring back the electric vehicle, much in the same way that Frankenstein’s monster was brought back. Both being unnatural things artificially enlivened. 
And supported, including by lies.
Why not tell people the truth about the fact that one cannot fully “fast” charge a device being just one of many for-instances? Note that in 99.9 percent of all news (if you want to use that word) stories about EV “fast” charging times, it is never explained that the times mentioned are for a partial rather than a full charge. Why the omission? For the obvious reason. The propagandists want to paint a false equivalence in people’s minds between the time it takes to charge an EV and the time it takes to fill a tank by implying it takes only 15-20 minutes to “fast” charge a device, leaving out that in fact it takes at least an hour to fully charge the device. The “15-20” minutes might get you to 80 percent; but at that point, the “fast” charging stops – to reduce the fire risk/damage potential to the battery – and the charging reverts to slow. 
And why does Newsom misrepresent the truth about how many “fast” chargers are available in CA? Because he knows perfectly well that if he admitted the truth, it would expose his lies about “the California EV driver experience.”
More lies emanate from the Lugenpresse’s “coverage” of Newsom’s lies:
He has “has vocalized his distaste for the Trump administration’s efforts to defund public charging expansion initiatives, but California recently approved its own $1.4 billion EV infrastructure investment plan to continue its impressive momentum in EV adoption.”
Italics added. 
What is behind that “impressive momentum? Why, the pushy hand of government. Stalin also conjured “impressive momentum,” but even he didn’t have the gall to imply it was a natural development. He was proud of having forced the “impressive momentum” into motion.
Why is it that today’s reds are so desperate to pretend they’re merely green? And that everything they push is some kind of kumbaya circle jerk around a campfire accompanied by insipid guitar strumming?
Probably because they know red doesn’t sell very well and so it was necessary to rebrand it. Gorbachev – the last leader of the old Soviet Union, understood it.
Does Trump understand it?
The worry is he does not. For if he did, he would not have referred to Tesla as a “great American car company” – nor announced he would be purchasing a Tesla, for that is buying in to the lies – and that suggests he either doesn’t understand them or he’s in on them.
Neither option being much cause for hope.
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I like how “the state investing in more charger”. Hmmm. Did the state have to invest in gas stations when gas-powered cars came on the scene? Why does the state get to be in such a business (Especially seeing that such a business must not be profitable, else private companies would be jumping all over it. But of course, in reality, private companies that were in that business are abandoning their chargers and going bankrupt). So, “the state” is building infrastructure that benefits EV manufacturers, why?
They have a few of them. Doesn’t mean it’s safe to stop and use one.
The commies are so progressive that their answers for the future of transportation is mid 1800s to early 1900s technology.
The left loves trains. Trains are cool. They have their place for slow moving goods for a decent price. However, the train is the same as the bus, they all have schedules you have to work around. I work 15 mins from home (closest I’ve ever been to work in my life) but if I take the bus, it would be no different in time than if I were a car commuter in LA, DC, or ATL to be stuck in rush hour traffic.
Miss the bus? Wait another 30 mins around here for the next bus. Hmm, maybe they should put charge points at bus stops so that while waiting for a partial charge folks can still have transportation, but get to alao experience the diversity that is a vagrant panhandling in a very uncomfortable nature. Coexist right?
Ya know, I don’t remember being programmed in government skrewl how the government had to subsidize Standard Oil so that they had enough fueling stations across the country. I don’t remember Henry Ford getting Edison to subsidize the ICE with Coulomb Credits. I also never heard of a single lawsuit related to the saaaafety failures of the Model T.
Amen, J –
Today’s lead article gets into this some…
You can’t walk up the road and come back with a jerry can filled with electricity when you run out.
I worked at a politically correct place in the shithole formerly known as California (thank you auslanders.) To go along with the official narrative, several parking spaces were converted to “charging stations”, under the MIS-understanding that charging wouldn’t take all day. Hilarious the number of shouting and screaming matches, and, fistfights that broke out among the “oh, I’m just SO much better than you knuckledraggers driving gas powered cars”) retards. Reality really gave a lot of those tards a icewater reality enema. The employer had to station “security” personnel there to keep the PC tards civilized.
The tards had to start showing up at 6 in the morning to get a charging station, and as is the case, the charging took FAR longer than “as advertised”.
Again, as Eric states, it’s all bullshit and lies. Yes, electric appliances have a purpose, like on golf courses, around amusement parks, for disabled people, and in some urban settings. Gruesome Greasehair will continue to lie as his “father” is the father of lies…..
Preach it, Nike!
It is very telling that EV pushers have to push them. No one had to push cars. People eagerly bought them – at market price – and gas station proliferated on the basis of market demand. It is not necessary to lie about the driving range of a car – or to try to imply it only takes so many minutes to fill up the tank (but not really, because not a full tank).
I do not hate EVs – in the sense that I do not hate people’s right to drive one if they wish. I hate the lies backing the pushing of them – and those who push them.
I agree Eric. I’m NOT against electric vehicles. I am totally against the lies and bullshit. I’m totally against duh gubmunt pushing these things on the public as if they will “save” the planet. If duh gubmunt has to subsidize these things, blow smoke up people’s asses to get them to “buy” these things then that shows that they (duh gubmunt AND the EVs) are fake AND gay. If EVs were really any good, people would be buying them like hot cakes…..
In the wake of President Donald McKinley Trump’s bruising auto tariffs, today gold ripped to a fresh record of $3,117 an ounce, as stocks were crushed like bugs. Gold chart:
https://tinyurl.com/2zth48bm
Gold is the anti-Trump.
Gold is another Hotel California, you can buy but you can never sell.
Why buy at 3111 USD when you can sell? Buyers want gold, sellers hold for the next price increase. Cui Bono? Dotgov?
Some shrewd horse traders out there.
I see that some tech stocks are losing some ground; no reason to use semi-colons.
The price of gold might be the reason.
Follow the money! Sam Kinison screaming it as loud as you can.
Liquidity trap, you can see it.
Is Trump on commission for Tesla sales?????
“Level 2 and Level 1 chargers, the kind now required by code to be installed in the garages of new homes in California”
My gosh.. people are complete morons and/or total pussy’s willing to be dictated to by the fagots in cali govco.
I swear they deserve everything they get for allowing such absurd bs.
They believe it’s a democracy. In a democracy, there are NO rights and everything is subject to a vote, and of course to political manipulation. In fact, nobody pays attention to the US Constitution requirement that the states have a republican form of government. That is not a meaningless thing, nor does it mean the states must be run by Republicans. It means that legitimate government can only apply to public things.
Level 1 (110 volt) chargers — not good enough, comrade. You know the law:
‘New one- and two-unit single family dwellings or townhouses with attached private garages must have an electrical conduit installed that is capable of supporting a Level 2 EV charger.‘
https://afdc.energy.gov/laws/11068
For spreading misinformation, you have been booked into an all-day struggle session and re-education class next Monday. Please report at 0800 sharp.
:For new multifamily housing and hotels, 40% of parking spaces must be capable of supporting a low-power Level 2 EV charger and 10% of parking spaces must be equipped with Level 2 EV chargers.
The rest of ya’ll can fight over them.
So, if yiz lives in a 200 unit apt complex, with one parking space per unit, nine of those must be equipped with an EV charger, according to the article.
Based on my experience, apt complexes have assigned parking spaces. So, how much is the rent premium for a parking space with an EV charger? Eh?
The mirage of the EV phenomena is a chimera, looks real, not much else.
150 million EVs will be one epic fail. Makes you look stupid, really. Elon stupid, even. As Snagglepuss would say.
A million young poets screaming out their words
Maybe someday those words will be heard
By future generations riding on the highways that we built
Maybe they’ll have a better understanding – John Cougar Mellencamp, Check It Out
In the day, we sweat it out on the streets
Of a runaway American dream
At night, we ride through mansions of glory
In suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on Highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin’ out over the line
One of the few good things to come out of Ur leftist Bruce Springsteen…
“All these memories will be lost, like tears in rain.”
— Roy Batty
Hi Adi,
Hauer came up with that on his own, I read. Genius scene.
Trumpenstein just pardoned Nikola CEO Trevor Martin from a four year prison term for fraud and other assorted grift regarding Nikola trucks rolling downhill rather than actually running under their own power. Guess it didn’t hurt that Trevor and his wife “donated” $1.8 million to Trumpy’s campaign, per the WSJ.
Trevor Milton dindu nuffin.
It was gravity what made that big truck roll downhill.
Not his fault! /sarc
‘Red doesn’t sell very well and so it was necessary to rebrand it.’ — eric
Turns out, neither does Orange.
Today’s U of Michigan consumer sentiment index came in close a 5-year low. It’s the blue line in this fugly chart:
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm5FC.jpg?itok=QaSMtLkV
Who would have thought that a shit-sandwich menu of new permawars (Yemen, prep for Iran) and new taxes (savage hikes in imported vehicle prices thanks to tariffs) would unnerve America’s world-champion shoppers?
Orange War Daddy is now our exalted Pooch Screwer in Chief. Protect your pets!
It is scientific illiteracy that is responsible for the (limited) “success” of EVs today–until these same scientific illiterates find out about extended charging times and limited range. Basic scientific principles are not taught in schools, being replaced by “touchy-feely” environmentalism and how humans are destroying the planet (yeah, right).
It is my humble opinion that us boomers are of the last generation who took science and technology seriously, with a hunger to know how and why things work. Us boomers had electrical and mechanical systems that we could work on and improve on ourselves. Basic scientific principles were taught in school and reinforced with hands-on experimentation.
In today’s climate (and the climate of two previous generations) experimentation on the level of the 1950s and 1960s is seen as “too dangerous”. I can remember the chemistry sets of the day being sold with toxic compounds which could be used for nefarious (and fun) purposes. Such sets are banned today.
Today’s prime example of the public’s scientific stupidity being pushed by political considerations is that of electric vehicles, most people (even supposedly “educated” types) enthusiastically jumping on the bandwagon despite the major deficiencies and problems these vehicles have.
Let’s look at the technical side of electric vehicles vs. ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles. Range is a large factor in the desirability of ICE vehicles vs. today’s electric vehicles. One can fuel up an ICE vehicle in approximately five minutes and be on his way.
Not so for electric vehicles. Quite often electric vehicle charging stations are few and far between, which contributes to “range anxiety”. For short hops and city driving, electric vehicles can be an ideal solution, but for extended “road trips” forget it.
Electric vehicle batteries lose power even when the vehicle is not in use. (This is akin to a gasoline vehicle with a leaky gas tank). Add to that, cold weather and the use of accessories (air conditioning, heat, lights, etc) will reduce range considerably. Electric vehicles may be somewhat suitable for a California climate, but will fail in sub-zero Michigan winter snow and ice.
Batteries can be charged only to 80% of full capacity as overcharging will reduce battery life considerably. “Fast charging” is also detrimental to battery life. It’s all about time and convenience vs. battery life.
Gasoline and diesel fuel has an large energy content (density) in a small package, something that, in their present stages of development, electrical vehicles cannot achieve.
Let’s make a comparison…gasoline contains approximately 33.7 kwh per gallon. A gallon of gasoline weighs approximately 6.1 lbs. The typical ICE vehicle can hold about 15 gallons of gasoline with a weight of approximately 90 lbs. total, with a total energy content of approximately 500 kwh.
High-end electric vehicles have an energy capacity of approximately 120 kwh. This is equal to less than four gallons of gasoline. The typical electric vehicle has a 75 kwh battery pack, equivalent to approximately 2 ½ gallons of gasoline.
Keep in mind that the battery pack weight is well over 2000 lbs (1 ton) and still has a limited energy capacity compared to gasoline. The typical electric vehicles weighs approximately 2 ½ tons (5000 lbs.), having to haul around a heavy battery pack. This also contributes to “wear and tear” on other automotive systems such as brakes and tires. (Yes, I am aware that regenerative braking exists and is a part of electric vehicle technology).
From an environmental standpoint, lithium is nasty stuff, reacts with water violently and is much more volatile than gasoline. Electric vehicle accidents are much more hazardous than those of ICE vehicles. Water cannot be used to put out a lithium battery pack fire.
Yes, gasoline is dangerous, but we have learned to control it and live with it successfully for over 100 years.
Most of today’s generation do not understand basic scientific principles; hence the enthusiasm for electric vehicles which are “not yet ready for prime-time”. The inability of today’s generation to understand basic scientific and engineering principles is responsible for their gullibility and ignorance.
>The inability of today’s generation to understand basic scientific and engineering principles >is responsible for their gullibility and ignorance.
The times may be a-cnangin’.
Here is an article in the Main Sewer Media which is critical of EVs:
https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/03/22/evs-dont-work-for-everyone/
Who woulda thunkit, Plunkett?
“It is my humble opinion that us boomers are of the last generation who took science and technology seriously”
Apparently Boomer has this on clip board and only knows how to copy & paste endlessly.
OK boomer . . .
Do you even have any sort of education in STEM outside of what you got in K-12?
Yes, I do. I am a retired electrical engineer. You must be butthurt because you cannot handle the TRUTH about EVs which are NOT ready for prime-time. Now, go ahead and resume playing your video games in your mom’s basement.
LOL – whoa boomer. Lots of anger issues there for someone that proudly flaunts the boomer moniker.
I simply referred to you by your chosen identity and your propensity to repeatedly paste this same self righteous diatribe over and over as if the boomer generation was somehow superior when it comes to advancing the sciences.
always beware of wanker trolls, anarchyst…
I most certainly do, but I go it the hard way. It’s called life experience.
>Basic scientific principles were taught in school and reinforced with hands-on experimentation.
Yup. My own DOB is 2 Sept 1949 (4th anniversary of Japanese surrender).
HS graduation: June 1966 (age 16, with a year of rigorous calculus to my credit)
Uni graduation: June 1970 (age 20, with a published scientific paper to my credit)
Dropped out of graduate school and became a carpenter.
And here we are.
The reasons I’m not buying an electric vehicle anytime soon have nothing to do with politics and everything to do with pragmatism.
EVs cost too much, they don’t last as long as non-EVs, charging them is a hassle, they lose range as they get older and when the weather is a
few degrees on either side of room temperature, they merely shift and don’t really solve problems like pollution (as if that’s much of a problem these days), and they cause problems of their own (mining those rare earth minerals really damages the environment and makes people sick). Plus, the technology isn’t really ready for prime time.
That said, EVs are not economic products made because people demand them and are willing to spend money for them and other people supply them with the goal of making a profit, but political products made to advance a political agenda.
In the words of Frau Farbissina from Austin Powers, “LIES! ALL LIES!”
Electric vehicles are a retrograde option, even when compared to the 2.0 liter turbocharged crossovers that now populate our roads like a plague of bubble-shaped dullards.
If Trump really wanted to help our economy, JUNK all of the regulations concerning vehicles. There is no constitutional mandate for the imperial government to tell carmakers how many airbags their vehicles must contain or what kind of fuel economy they must achieve.
My suspicion is the carmakers support these regs because they’re a barrier to entry for any startups. If we got rid of the regs for CAFE and NHTSA, our entrepreneurial spirit would take off and you’d have dozens of Henry Fords slapping out cars people could afford and would like.
My auto response EVERY time I hear a radio or tv news reader is “Lying F#*K”.
I live in SoCal (riverside County).
Recently experienced an electric power outage, courtesy of
Southern Cal Edison.
My home heating system is a gravity fed natural gas furnace,
My cook stove runs on natural gas.
My water heater runs on natural gas.
My Ford pickup runs on gasoline.
No worries, mate.
The only consequence to me was the telescreen went dark for a few hours.
When electric power was restored, Edison kindly sent me an email letting me know that was the case. Good of them, don’t you think?
Your telescreen went dark?
The geek in me immediately wonders why anybody in a 3rd world country with unreliable and very expensive electricity wouldn’t have a generator and/or a big UPS.
The anarchist jerk in me cheers for your good fortune.
And the American applauds your self reliance.
‘Only 10 percent of the touted 48 percent are Level 3 commercial “fast” chargers’ — eric
Thanks for clarifying this, Eric. I’m on the email distribution list of Veloz, a communist front organization in CA probably controlled by Newsom. This is the pertinent text from their March 20th email blast:
‘California’s nation-leading electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure continues to expand at a record pace. According to the Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, California now has 48% more EV chargers than gasoline nozzles in the state.
‘Since the last reporting period in August 2024, 26,193 new public and shared private EV chargers have been added across the state, bringing the total to 178,549 chargers – a significant step forward in meeting the growing demand for clean transportation.’
Talk about artful opacity — the email never reveals that only 10 percent of this astounding 178,549 total are commercial ‘fast’ chargers.
I salute the frayed-collar flack who drafted this ‘lying with statistics’ press release. Veloz will know it has succeeded when everything its victims believe is a lie.
Headline: Even Some High-Income Americans Can’t Afford New Cars Anymore
https://archive.ph/Q7mfh
Money quote (literally): “Automakers aren’t sufficiently motivated to solve the affordability crisis because they’re making more money selling fewer cars to richer buyers.”
Fast charging is here. BYD announced a 1000 volt charger.
https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/byd-confirms-1000v-super-e-platform-fast-charging-400km-5-minutes/
Of course the odds of the electrical infrastructure supporting the number of vehicles out there is essentially zero. Let alone all the metal required.
The democrats are fond of saying “My body, my choice” but disagree with the corollary of that statement; “My driveway, my choice”. Whether it be a humble Chevette or a tricked out Hellcat buy what makes you happy.
Luckily the raccoons love the Cyberskunks……….
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/general/racoons-mistake-cybertruck-for-a-trash-can/ar-AA1wDixA
Hi Landru,
Yup. Just as the Saturn V’s main rocket motors were “here” in 1966. The catch being you need a Saturn V and all the launch infrastructure to use them.
Sadly Eric we are no longer capable of building the Saturn V’s main engines now.
The excuse being given is “The problem in re-creating the Saturn V is not finding the drawings, it is finding vendors who can supply mid-1960’s vintage hardware (like guidance system components), and the fact that the launch pads and VAB have been converted to Space Shuttle use, so you have no place to launch from.”
>Saturn V’s main [Nazi] rocket motors were “here” in 1966.
Nazi, Nazi, Nazi!
>the l[Nazi] launch pads and [Nazi] VAB have been converted
Nazi, Nazi, Nazi!
Which is why NASA Never Went To The Moon, you see.
They had to hire an ultra-smart Jew, Stanley Kubrick, to fake it for them.
Because that Nazi rocket science stuff never works, anyway.
Gawd makes sure of that, because Nazis must never win.
You must never use the word “German,” because all Germans, and all creatures of German ancestry, are Evil Monsters. None dare call them “human.”
[end sarc]
And now, children, we will learn to use “search and replace.”
Repeat after me. Replace “Nazi” with “National Socialist.”
Extra credit: Replace “Nazi” with “German.”
See how much better it sounds?
[snicker]
Fast charging is here.
No, it’s not. the Beneath Your Dignity (BYD) breakthrough story is just the same sophistry as always. As Eric points out in the article above, “it is never explained that the times mentioned are for a partial rather than a full charge”, and that in all likelihood applies here as well.
How long does it take to fully charge the BYD vehicle in question? They don’t say. Why not? Well, obviously, because then they’d have to reveal that it’s not fast at all. And they also don’t say anything about battery wear, either, which would be an impediment for this 1000 V “Super E-Platform” to be a viable option.
What BYD should have said is that people can choose to abort the charging session after five minutes, resulting in a partial charge of X kms/miles. That would have been less dishonest, but would have killed the hype, which is why they’re not doing that.
Hi Stufo.
I just reported it, not that I believed it. Or as that old saying goes: Some conditions apply”. By the time they work all the bugs out we’ll probably have flying cars and be celebrating the first Solar landing (done at night for safety reasons).