Rick Scott gets no charge from military's electric vehicle push
Rick Scott isn’t exactly charged up about Democratic legislation mandating military adoption of electric vehicles.
In comments Sunday, the Republican Senator from Florida warned against the military (and presumably everyone else) relying on EVs, suggesting the power grid would be ill-equipped to handle them, especially during tropical storm season.
WABC radio host John Catsimatidis asked Scott about how EVs would be charged after a hurricane when the power was out, leading Scott to free associate.
“You can’t,” Scott said, before pivoting to the Democrats and legislation under consideration in the Senate Armed Services Committee, to which he belongs.
“They’re trying to make all of our non-com...
