Edit: From the answers, it looks like efficiency is better when the fuel is burned centrally.
So what can be the benefit of turning off charging stations? If you want to strengthen the fuel industry, wouldn't it be better to burn the fuel centrally and feed the electricity into the grid?
If you define it as (say) pounds of CO2 emitted per mile driven, then electric cars are about as efficient as gasoline-powered ones if the electricity comes from coal plants, but significantly better if it comes from natural gas. And of course, way better if you have access to renewables.
It's a message about values. The message is fuck you. It's stupid on purpose, because fuck you.
I really want to have such optimism.
However many overlook the other benefit, which as software devs we should easily recognize. Powering your car with electricity abstracts the fuel from the use of the fuel. An electric car doesn't run on any one single type of fuel, it runs on whatever is available in the area.
"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...
> They want to destroy the American administrative state.
You did it a little yourself there. s/administrative//. They want to destroy the American nation state, period.
Electric vehicles use half the energy of gas-powered vehicles - https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/electric-vehicles...
Levelized Cost of Energy+ - https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-e...
Well-to-wheels greenhouse gas emissions for cars by powertrains - https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/well-to-wheel...
Where Coal Is Retiring, and Hanging On, in the U.S. - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/06/climate/coal-... | https://archive.today/Egwuc
New solar plants expected to support most U.S. electric generation growth - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64364
> So what can be the benefit of turning off charging stations? If you want to strengthen the fuel industry, wouldn't it be better to burn the fuel centrally and feed the electricity into the grid?
Spite and prioritizing the oil and gas industry for economic reasons. Which is somewhat humorous, as China is building EVs so fast, they are impairing the global oil market price. The US government simply cannot take enough action to assist the petroleum industry (for economic gains) to compensate for China's impact on the global oil market.
Trump wants more drilling, but the oil market is already saturated - https://grist.org/energy/trump-wants-more-drilling-but-the-o...
China’s Oil Demand Is Vanishing Faster Than It Looks - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-19/china-... | https://archive.today/BMo4N
IEA Says Oil Demand Growth Weakness to Continue on China and EVs - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/iea-says-... | https://archive.today/2aN1j
(50% of vehicles sold in 2024 in China were battery electric or plug in hybrids, "NEVs")
> Some 60% of vehicles bought under the program last year came with a plug, and China’s car market is already at a tipping point: Battery and plug-in hybrid cars, locally termed New Energy Vehicles or NEVs, in December made up 49.4% of car sales, and 46.8% across the full year. Conventional and normal hybrid cars will be a minority of the market this year, and the only way is down: Bloomberg Intelligence estimates that NEVs will hit 68% market share in 2027 and 81% in 2030.