EVs Gaining In North Dakota And Other Stories Of Fiction -- July 22, 2019

Wow, talk about a long, long article -- the writer must be looking for a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.

The article over at The Grand Forks Herald goes on and on and on.

The article was sent to me by a reader. Thank you.

141 electric vehicles registered in North Dakota, according to the article.

The article does not provide a denominator, the total number of registered vehicles in North Dakota. It looks like there are about 800,000 vehicles registered in North Dakota, most of them being trucks (about 600,000). Link here.

0.02%.

Gaining momentum.

Doubling that number and we get to 0.04%.

North Dakota ranks near the bottom among US states in number of EVs.

Charging stations:

• ND has 22 charging stations, but no "fast" chargers
• nearest "fast" charger is in Moorhead, MN
• last time I checked, there were no Tesla chargers in North Dakota
• still seems to be accurate based on a note dated May 18, 2019: no Tesla chargers in North Dakota

Wild enthusiasm:

[A spokesman for the American Lung Association and Clean Cities] also praised West Fargo Public Schools for purchasing the state’s first all-electric school bus. The larger the diesel vehicle, the more emissions it tends to produce, he said.

“Just taking one diesel bus off the road and replacing it with electric, that makes a big difference,” he said.

A 1,000-mile journey begins with the first step.

The article concludes:

Jason Bohrer [president and CEO of the Lignite Energy Council] said the Tesla handled icy conditions this past winter as well as a sport utility vehicle, but bitterly cold temperatures do pose a problem for North Dakota drivers when it comes to battery life.

Just as frigid air rapidly drains the battery in cellphones held outside a jacket pocket, it also sucks down the charge in electric vehicles.

Josh Schaffner [Capital Electric Cooperative, Bismarck, ND] has noticed that while driving the Chevrolet Bolt, and Bohrer says the same is true of the Tesla.
Sitting in his Bismarck office with the Tesla parked in back on a recent July day, Bohrer looked out the window to the warm, sunny weather.
“Today, I could drive that from here to Fargo,” he said.

When it’s 20 below, he’s not sure he could make it to Steele.

Steele is about 40 miles east of Bismarck.

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Global Warming Propaganda With Cartoon

Link here.

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And Other Works Of Fiction

Book sales.

"Conservative" book on Kavanaugh:
Amazon.com: #1 in sales
New York Times: #6 -- based on a handful of bookstores which The NYT won't identify

Link here.

From the linked article:

Conservatives have repeatedly protested how The New York Times "Bestseller List" doesn't live up to its name. 

We have reported the pattern with David Limbaugh and Dinesh D'Souza. The newest example came from Sean Davis of The Federalist, and the book in question is Justice On Trial by Mollie Hemingway (of The Federalist) and Carrie Severino. The book about the Kavanaugh confirmation shot to #1 on Amazon, but the Times was playing games....again. Davis said they "fudged" it.

But you know, considering this comes from The New York Times and from sales in likely liberal bookstores, even getting to #6 is quite impressive.

Fact checking: the article is correct. Here it is -- #6 on the list.

Becoming by Michelle, was #4 and falling.

But Kavanaugh beat out a book on John F Kennedy, Jr, #7, which, of course, speaks volumes on this list.