PolitiFact road-tests Donald Trump’s claim about driving an electric vehicle in New Hampshire
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On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has criticized the shift to electric vehicles, an effort that has been encouraged by his potential 2024 opponent, President Joe Biden.
Trump told a Nov. 11 crowd in Claremont that electric vehicles "don’t go far," using their state of New Hampshire as an example.
"You can't get out of New Hampshire in an electric car," he said. "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."
New Hampshire doesn’t have the greatest public electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Depending on the estimate, the state has 220 to 350 publicly accessible EV chargers, or one for every 4,000 to 6,000 residents. That’s in the middle of the 50-state pack, and it’s far behind the No. 1 state, New Hampshire’s neighbor, Vermont, with about one for every 750 residents.
