2023 Heavy Electric Vehicles Jeopardize Climate Action and Public Safety

US President Joe Biden waves as before test driving an electric Hummer as he tours the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan on November 17, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
When President Joe Biden celebrated what is arguably his administration’s biggest climate win on social media last week, he did so smiling from the driver’s seat of one of the most popular electric vehicles made in the United States.
“On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified,” Biden wrote in the Jan. 30 tweet that showed the president sitting in one of General Motors’ military-inspired Hummer EVs. “And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle.”

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