Pete Buttigieg pitched electric vehicles on Thursday in Texas, where an overtaxed power grid could pose problems for the transition from gas-powered cars.
Multifamily homes, which are common in large metro areas like Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin, present their own challenges due to a lack of at-home charging, but Texans in rural areas may not have the same problem.
"In rural areas, you have a higher proportion of people living in single family homes. Remember, it's considerably easier to solve the charging puzzle if you have the benefit of living in a single-family home," Buttigieg said. "You just plug it in here, plug it into your garage."could also be a barrier for the transition to electric vehicles, with extreme weather events in the winter and summer making the availability of electricity hit-or-miss at times.
Transmission towers are seen at the CenterPoint Energy powerplant on June 09, 2022, in Houston, Texas. The Texas Department of Transportation noted that a February 2021 winter storm shut down the power grid for days in some parts of Texas. More recently, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas
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