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Noted car buffJoe Bidenput the pedal to the metal on Thursday, taking Jeep’s new hybrid Wrangler for a spin on the White House grounds.
“Not a bad day on the job,” the 78-year-old Biden wrote of his joyride on Twitter, posting a video of himself zooming down the White House driveway and honking the horn of the silver, four-door Wrangler.
On Thursday, Biden signed an executive order outlining the new goal and kicking off the development of new fuel efficiency and emissions standards, which the White House said would “save consumers money, cut pollution, boost public health, advance environmental justice, and combat climate change.”
“The question is whether we’ll lead or fall behind in the race for the future. It’s whether we’ll build these vehicles and the batteries that got them to where they are in the United States — here in the United States, or we’re going to have to rely on other countries for those batteries,” Biden said, adding, “They have to be made here in America.”
“Do you see that sucker over there?” Biden asked. “Zero to 60 in 4.1 seconds. It’s all electric. I tell you what — and I want to say publicly — I have a commitment from [General Motors CEO Mary Barra] when they make the first electric Corvette, I get to drive it. Right, Mary?”
The president continued, with a laugh: “You think I’m kidding. I’m not kidding. And my entire Secret Service detail went, ‘Oh my God. Let’s go.’ "
True to the description, theavowed aficionadohas an enviable collection of his own cars — the star of which is a Godhood-Green 1967 Chevrolet Corvette, a wedding gift from his father that he houses in Delaware.
source: people.com
