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Politicians praise electric cars. If everyone buys them, they say, solar and wind power will replace our need for oil.

But that's absurd.

Here is the rest of my list of "inconvenient facts" about electric cars.

"The future of the auto industry is electric," says President Joe Biden. He assumes a vast improvement in batteries. Better batteries are crucial because both power

The Biden administration can’t say how much progress, if any, it is making on a $5 billion federal initiative to build new EV chargers along America’s sprawling interstate highway system, according to several government agencies.

Electric vehicles are a main part of achieving President Biden’s ambitious emission-reduction goals. But the nation’s lack of public charging threatens to

President Joe Biden is casting his debt ceiling deal with Republicans as a win for clean energy. But one of the greatest hurdles to greening the U.S. electric grid — transmission — was largely unaddressed by the agreement to raise the country’s borrowing limit. The final deal, which Congress must still pass, mandates a single study on the issue of connecting solar and wind power to urban areas

Shares of Tesla rose Tuesday after the electric carmaker’s CEO Elon Musk met with China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang.

It comes as Beijing is pushing to show it is open to foreign business, and as Musk reportedly signaled further expansion of his car company’s business in China.

Qin, who was until recently China’s ambassador to the U.S., said “Chinese-style modernization,”