dividing Administration is making an ambitious push to regulate Auto pollution the aim here is to accelerate automaker's shift to electric vehicles consumer reporter Cassie arsenant looks into whether the aggressive change is actually affordable for the average American my God this thing wow okay electric cars have come a long way through the years they are fast Sleek looking and save you money at the pump still out of all the cars sold in the United States less than six percent of them are elec
tric vehicles President Biden's plan to protect Public Health by achieving carbon emission reductions would require that 67 percent of cars be electric by 2032. do you think that's realistic for the average consumer because right now the majority of EV cars are ten thousand dollars more than a gas-powered car ultimately it's going to be consumers that decide whether or not we hit those goals and you know we're seeing more and more people choose electric vehicles we went to the BMW store where th
ey sell electric gas and hybrid vehicles to find out the costs associated with each on average their electric model costs about ten thousand dollars more than their base model BMW 4 Series with a gas engine that's true for a lot of auto manufacturers some like Ford's electric F-150 is 26 000 more than their gas powered car pros and cons you can kind of you can list them out pretty easily but with electric you can save more than thirty dollars at the pump each time you fill up there's a little ma
intenance costs and a potential seventy five hundred dollar federal tax break and the BMW battery is under warranty for eight years and if you haven't upgraded or bought a new car by then a new battery can cost anywhere from seven to ten thousand dollars to replace you have to kind of handle the elephant in the room which is range anxiety a lot of folks are really concerned about obviously when they're driving the car they're going to have a place to uh charge the vehicle rural areas you know yo
u're not going to have a charging station down the road Ohio's lieutenant governor announced a plan today to expand the state's Workforce for making electric vehicles with the president's aggressive push and as more States try to capitalize on the car of the future consumers may be nudged into an electric car Cassie Arsenault Local 12 News foreign
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