NASCAR fans just want to be able to enjoy racing without being lectured.
The last thing they want is woke politics being injected into the sport.
And NASCAR fans are up in arms over one green scheme that could be the end of the sport.
The Left wants to use NASCAR to promote electric vehicles
President Joe Biden and his friends in the media are trying to force electric vehicles on the country.
The goal is to get drivers behind the wheel of an electric vehicle to fight climate change.
No sport in the country hates its own fans as much as NASCAR.
NASCAR unveiled an electric race car prototype before the Chicago Street Race in July in partnership with the Swiss-Swedish multinational company ABB.
The ABB NASCAR EV Prototype was an opportunity for stock racing to show its commitment to lower carbon emissions.
“The objective of the collaboration between NASCAR, ABB in the United States, and the NASCAR industry is to push the boundaries of electrification technology, from EV racing to long-haul transportation to facility operations,” ABB EVP Ralph Donati said.
Semi-retired Cup Series driver David Ragan put the vehicle to the test on the track at Martinsville Speedway.
NASCAR officials said that there are no plans for an electric racing series yet, but it was something they were exploring.
Academics and officials lauded the EV Prototype as a way to promote electric vehicles to what might otherwise be skeptical NASCAR fans.
From the roar of the engine to the low hum of an electric motor
NASCAR head of sustainability Riley Nelson told the Associated Press that the sport and its corporate partners “want to represent electric vehicles, and more broadly electrification, in racing as cool, fun and accessible.”
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign environmental engineering professor Eleftheria Kontou touted the ABB NASCAR Prototype EV as a tool of propaganda to Tech Brew.
“There [are] a series of benefits of electric vehicles that can be introduced and communicated through this venue,” Kontou explained.
“Every consumer segment will make a decision on the transition depending on their situation,” Kontou said. “Having some knowledge and understanding of these machines can make a difference.”
Democrats want to force people to transition to electric vehicles but their sales have collapsed because no one wants to buy them outside of California.
Having an electric vehicle promoted in NASCAR can be a tool to win over the sport’s skeptical fanbase, which consists mostly of conservatives who live in the rural south.
One of the thrills of NASCAR is the sound of the engine at races and the smell of gasoline.
That is an integral part of the sport’s experience.
But that all disappears when the car is electric.
“NASCAR fans tend to be looking for the noise that these engines make, the smell of gas,” Kontou said. “But the alternative, the electric vehicle prototype, can be something new and exciting in terms of the technology and the engineering.”
Get ready for the thrill of the low whiz of an electric motor and hour-long pit times while the vehicle recharges NASCAR fans!
