{"id":1025603,"date":"2021-11-17T23:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T04:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1025603"},"modified":"2021-11-17T23:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T04:13:31","slug":"joe-biden-promotes-future-of-electric-cars-after-test-driving-100k-electric-hummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-promotes-future-of-electric-cars-after-test-driving-100k-electric-hummer\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Promotes Future of Electric Cars After Test Driving $100K Electric Hummer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-promotes-future-of-electric-cars-after-test-driving-100k-electric-hummer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1025603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden test drove the all-new electric Hummer during his visit to a General Motors (GM) factory in Michigan on Wednesday, promoting the future of electric vehicles in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sucker is something else,\u201d Biden said after he pulled up to the group of reporters who watched him drive the new electric vehicle.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.5660377358491\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Biden floored it behind the wheel of an electric Hummer today in Michigan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BOQpqiBlhE\">pic.twitter.com\/BOQpqiBlhE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kelly O&#8217;Donnell (@KellyO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KellyO\/status\/1461077551007289358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 2022 Edition 1 model of the electric Hummer pickup version <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/gmc\/hummer-ev\">goes<\/a> on sale this fall with a price tag of $112,595.<\/p>\n<p>The president drove around with GM CEO Mary Barra in the passenger seat, at one point revving the engine and squealing the tires.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7741935483871\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Biden drives electric Hummer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GM<\/a>: &#8220;Anybody want to jump in the back? On the roof? This sucker&#8217;s something else.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3WbEwArRJW\">pic.twitter.com\/3WbEwArRJW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1461077865206886402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a very good driver,\u201d Barra said after the test drive.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said he did not know how fast he got the vehicle up to, claiming he did not have time to look at the speedometer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is three times as heavy as my Corvette and three times as fast,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cheaper models of the electric vehicle will be put on the market next year, and the cheapest version is nearly $80,000.<\/p>\n<p>The president visited a General Motors factory to promote electric vehicles and celebrate the passage of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that includes funding for electric vehicle charging stations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15350292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1180954684.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15350292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1180954684.png\" alt=\"An electric car and a plug-in hybrid car charge at a public charging station on October 12, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Germany is hoping to encourage electric car sales as a means to brining down CO2 emissions and combat climate change. (Photo by Sean Gallup\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An electric car and a plug-in hybrid car charge at a public charging station on October 12, 2019, in Berlin, Germany. Germany is hoping to encourage electric car sales as a means to bringing down CO2 emissions and combat climate change. (Photo by Sean Gallup\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good to be back in Detroit. And that Hummer is one hell of a vehicle,\u201d Biden said during his remarks. \u201cZero to 60 in three seconds. Whoa!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden praised Barra for investing in the Detroit factory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/17\/joe-biden-to-visit-general-motors-as-ceo-ships-electric-vehicle-jobs-to-mexico\/\">ignoring<\/a> GM\u2019s announcement in April they would invest $1 billion into their factories in Mexico to produce electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMary, you are an incredible leader. You really are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden test drove the all-new electric Hummer during his visit to a General Motors (GM) factory in Michigan on Wednesday, promoting the future of electric vehicles in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}