Several Republican representatives have proposed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act to try to stop the Pentagon’s electrification. The proposals sound so mind-bogglingly dumb that they look like they were written by 19th-century Luddites or the fossil fuel industry itself.
With the US military operating a fleet of hundreds of thousands of vehicles, including tactical vehicles, it makes the Pentagon the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world.
The entire transportation industry is currently transitioning to electric propulsion, and the US military knows better than to be left behind.
Doesn’t the one bullet in the right place also kill pretty much every vehicle?
A lithium powered EV will definitely burn itself to ash.
Maybe this means that the US government can invest heavily in battery technology where the patents are publicly owned.
For example, graphene batteries wouldn’t have the explosive problems that lithium batteries have.
A bullet in the right place will kill a person. Better stop using them, too.
All hail the robot overlords!