Lt Col Charlie Brown I am staying with my gas powered vehicle, don't want none of that for sure.

As I have shared in previous posts., an EV will not charge in the winter here even in many garages where the temperature can get down to 10 degrees . In cold weather, the extra stress can reduce driving range up to 40%

Thank you my friend and sister-in-Christ Lt Col Charlie Brown for posting the perspective from dailymail.co.uk contributing author Rony Reyes

Image: Alexandra Datig

Background from the link you posted {[dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11583253/LA-woman-warns-EV-owners-charging-stations-littered-homeless-encampments.}
A conservative commentator has warned electric vehicle drivers in Los Angeles that charging stations for their $60,000 cars are littered with homeless encampments.
Alexandra Datig shared a video of her driving in downtown LA on Wednesday, with one of the local Blink EV charging stations surrounded by trash and tents.
'When you live in Los Angeles, it's better to have a charging station at home for that $60,000 EV,' Datig wrote on Twitter.
'The closer you get to downtown, the charging stations have homeless 'attendants' who live on the same sidewalk as the stations.'
The vagrancy crisis in LA carries on two weeks after newly-elected Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emergency over the situation. More than 69,000 homeless people currently live in the city. 
Last year, Los Angeles had 62,851 registered electric vehicles, with city officials projecting even more in 2022. California as a whole had 563,070 registered EVs in 2021, more than 100,000 more compared to the year before. 
The boom has meant that charging stations have popped up throughout the city, with about 4,296 public stations installed so far, according to PlugShare.com. 
And even more are expected to spring up after the state approved a ban on the sale of new gas cars by 2035, demonstrating a commitment to electric vehicles. 

Automakers are now required to reduce the number of gas guzzlers they sell in order to reach the first quota of the plan that mandates 35 percent of new cars, SUVs and small pickups sold in California by 2026 be zero-emission vehicles.
The quota increases every two years, with 51 percent by 2028, 68 percent by 2030 and then 100 percent of all new vehicles sold should be battery-powered five years later - 20 percent of these sold can be hybrid plug-ins.
But the work in LA could be undermined by the ongoing homeless crisis affecting the public charging stations.  
While taking a jab at the state of the streets near the pricey stations, Datig said: 'The human suffering is insurmountable around here,' noting that there are thousands living on the streets of the city. 
Less than 24 hours into her term, Mayor Bass vowed to tackle rampant vagrancy in the city, with plans to build 3,000 new homes, lease motel rooms and apartments, and issue tax payer-funded housing vouchers. 
Bass signed the declaration of emergency on December 12 inside the city's Emergency Operations Center, in a room designated as the 'United Homelessness Response Center.' 
'We must build housing faster, and we will. We must coordinate shelter and services and we will,' Bass said. 'I will not accept a homelessness crisis that afflicts more than 40,000 individuals and affects every one of us.'
The declaration - which is scheduled to last six months - allows Bass to take more aggressive executive actions to confront the crisis, though the City Council will have to sign off on it every 30 days.'

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