Obama Chickens Out, Says A Million EVs By 2015 Not Important

[Chris_]

Obama Chickens Out, Says A Million EVs By 2015 Not Important

Under a new strategy announced today, the Department of Energy promised to support research into new battery technologies and manufacturing methods that would lower the cost of lightweight materials and improve vehicles’ fuel-efficiency, Reuters reports.

But the DOE backpedals furiously from a goal set out in a 2011 State of the Union speech, where President Barack Obama announced what he called “Apollo projects of our times.” One of them was the goal for the United States to be “the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.”

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Of course it isn't imporant now... he already got his second term.  Suckers.

[thundley4]

manufacturing methods that would lower the cost of lightweight materials

It isn't so much that the manufacturing methods are expensive, unless he means using more automation and fewer union workers,  it's that the lighter metals are in shorter supply in nature.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The battery technology to make this happen isn't there and won't be for at least a decade, if ever, which was just as obvious in 2011 as it is now.  How much of his BS 'Investment' dough really went to target basic research on battery technology, instead of paying off contributors and bundlers up to their necks in production (As opposed to research or experimental pilot) facilities for alcohol, solar, or wind energy...?