I read the actual bill. Every single item in it was straight out of the oil industry's anti-EV talking papers. What I found interesting was part of the coalition to kill it was the Wyoming Auto Dealers Association.
Wyoming Stunt: A Proposed Billl to Discourage EV's by 2035
If passed (it didn't), Senate Joint Resolution 4 would encourage people and business in the state to not buy or sell EV's like the Chevy Equinox EV. So not a ban, just a way to show appreciation to oil lobbyists and create some animosity against those driving an EV, because there's not enough of that apparently.
If I lived in Wyoming and had to regularly drive hundreds of miles I'd want a hybrid unless the charging infrastructure was robust. Wyoming stands to get $24 million over 5 years from the federal government to install EV charging stations along its federally-designated alternative fuel corridors: Interstate 80, Interstate 25 and Interstate 90. Is that enough for the residents of the state? IDK, but it seems like a good start at least.
At the end of the day, it was proposed as a stunt, and then it died.
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If I lived in Wyoming and had to regularly drive hundreds of miles I'd want a hybrid unless the charging infrastructure was robust. Wyoming stands to get $24 million over 5 years from the federal government to install EV charging stations along its federally-designated alternative fuel corridors: Interstate 80, Interstate 25 and Interstate 90. Is that enough for the residents of the state? IDK, but it seems like a good start at least.
At the end of the day, it was proposed as a stunt, and then it died.
Wyoming Politicians Call for EV Sales to End in the State after 2035
Banning electric vehicles—or posturing about wanting to—is a political stunt in an era already overstuffed with them.
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