“You can't get out of New Hampshire in an electric car. Where are you going? ‘I'm going to Massachusetts.’ Well, you better get yourself a gas turbine because this car is not going to get you there. Well, you could, if you stop about four times now.”
What PolitiFact found
Relying on public chargers alone for long-distance travel can put a real crimp in EV usefulness in a state like New Hampshire. But for commuters with home chargers, anespecially with fast charging, an EV can work nicely.
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In short
Donald Trump (former president) made this claim around 11 November 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 November 2023, 16 days later. Its rating was “Home chargers should be fine”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEPXM1NyQR8
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