Recharging his car took too long and was a “really good reality check.”
Ford CEO Jim Farley said he got a “reality check” when he tried to charge his electric car during a road trip across the American West. The incident comes as the Biden administration has spent billions of taxpayer funds to boost electric transportation.
With windmills in the background, Farley posted a video to X while he was on a trip across the Western United States in which he made the admission that his experience trying to recharge his car was a “really good reality check” to see the challenges his customers are facing on a regular basis.
Farley said that it took his car 40 minutes to get up to only a 40 percent charge on his car. If he were to be using a gas-powered vehicle, the process of refueling would take a mere fraction of that time in comparison.
He openly admitted he would need to investigate the “importance of fast charging” for his customers more. Farley said he had stopped at “one of the most popular charging sites in the country on the I-5” in Coalinga, California and still had trouble getting a decent charge.
One man with an EV Hummer in January had a similar but more extreme experience of a slow charger taking an estimated five days to completely charge his vehicle.