EV Battery Plant Requires Refiring a Coal Plant for Power

The following article, EV Battery Plant Requires Refiring a Coal Plant for Power, was first published on The Black Sphere. EV are quickly becoming a boomerang to the head of Leftists. I have reported on various backfires on EV, that should cause panic to the Green Weenie crowd. For example, car manufacturers are scuttling plants, as well as production of EV. Apparently consumers don’t want to buy the cars having seen the real data. The cars are more expensive to operate than their gas-guzzling cousins. Next, rental agencies are canceling orders for EVs. It seems that people not only don’t want to buy the cars, but they don’t want to rent them either. That’s a real problem, because many people rent cars to determine what they may buy next. But things keep getting worse for the EV market. Because EVs require batteries. And those factories need power. Lots of it. In the case of a battery factory in Kansas, they actually had to refire a coal plant due to the electricity needs of the plant. The Institute for Energy Research reported, A new electric vehicle battery factory in Kansas needs so much energy that the state is delaying the retirement...