{"id":527271,"date":"2022-10-04T11:32:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=527271"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:18:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T07:48:52","slug":"biden-pledge-to-make-federal-fleet-electric-faces-slow-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/biden-pledge-to-make-federal-fleet-electric-faces-slow-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden pledge to make federal fleet electric faces slow start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden, a self-described \u201ccar guy,&#8221; often promises to lead by example by moving swiftly to convert the sprawling U.S. Government fleet to zero-emission electric vehicles. But efforts have lagged in helping meet his ambitious climate goals by eliminating gas-powered vehicles from the federal fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Biden last year directed the U.S. Government to purchase only American-made, zero-emission passenger cars by 2027 and electric versions of other vehicles by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re going to harness the purchasing power of the federal government to buy clean, zero-emission vehicles,\u201d the president said soon after his January 2021 inauguration. He has since used photo ops \u2014 taking a spin in Ford Motor Co.&#8217;s electric F-150 pickup truck, or driving GM&#8217;s Cadillac Lyriq electric SUV at the Detroit auto show \u2014 to promote their potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden, a self-described \u201ccar guy,&#8221; often promises to lead by example by moving swiftly to convert the sprawling U.S. Government fleet to zero-emission electric vehicles. But efforts have lagged in helping meet his ambitious climate goals by eliminating gas-powered vehicles from the federal fleet. Biden last year directed the U.S. Government to purchase only American-made, zero-emission passenger cars by 2027 and electric versions of other vehicles by 2035. \u201cWe&#8217;re going to harness the purchasing power of the federal government to buy clean, zero-emission vehicles,\u201d the president said soon after his January 2021 inauguration. He has since used photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}