Fan Backlash Builds as NASCAR Prepares to Unveil Electric Car

NASCAR has been developing a new electric vehicle … and no one appears to be quite sure why.

Regular readers of the The Western Journal are more than aware of the pushback President Joe Biden’s administration has received as it has tried to force Americans to adopt the not-yet-ready-for-prime-time technology, and it would seem intuitive that the very heartland Americans pushing back the hardest are likely part of the core of NASCAR’s fandom — or at least, that there’s significant overlap between the two groups.

That is apparently not intuitive to NASCAR’s leadership, however. Or perhaps they just don’t care.

Regardless, Fox Sports NASCAR reporter Bob Pockrass said on X Tuesday that the new electric NASCAR will be debuted to the public on Feb. 4.

“NASCAR’s battery electric vehicle that it is developing will do a demonstration run on the Sunday of the Clash,” Pockrass wrote in his post, referring to NASCAR’s preseason Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum to be held on that date. “David Ragan will drive it.”

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“Big news: Car has lights!! … no plans for a series yet; NASCAR also is looking at hydrogen combustible engine.”

With no plans for a series, one is forced to wonder what the point of developing the vehicle in the first place was. I mean … someone, somewhere must be thinking series eventually, it would seem.

Should NASCAR stick with gas-powered cars?

Pockrass didn’t pursue that line of inquiry, however, instead providing a few additional details regarding the vehicle — aside from the riveting announcement that it has lights — and its performance.

“NASCAR has tested its battery electric vehicle for three days at Martinsville,” he wrote in a second post. “Did 340 laps over three days (David Ragan drove it).

“Compact utility vehicle body not specific to a manufacturer. Lap times on third day within a couple tenths of second from a Cup car.”

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A couple tenths of a second was also about the amount of time it took for other X users to voice their displeasure with NASCAR for even the possibility of developing an EV racing series.

Some of the protests had more practical points to make.

I have to say, Tony seems to me to have made maybe the best point.

I mean, I can’t speak for every NASCAR fan, but if I wanted to watch someone spin around in circles without making meaningful noise, I’d tune in to the daily White House press briefing.


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George Upper is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Western Journal and was a weekly co-host of “WJ Live,” powered by The Western Journal. He is currently a contributing editor in the areas of faith, politics and culture. A former U.S. Army special operator, teacher and consultant, he is a lifetime member of the NRA and an active volunteer leader in his church. Born in Foxborough, Massachusetts, he has lived most of his life in central North Carolina.

George Upper, is the former editor-in-chief of The Western Journal and is now a contributing editor in the areas of faith, politics and culture. He currently serves as the connections pastor at Awestruck Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a former U.S. Army special operator, teacher, manager and consultant. Born in Massachusetts, he graduated from Foxborough High School before joining the Army and spending most of the next three years at Fort Bragg. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English as well as a Master’s in Business Administration, all from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He and his wife life only a short drive from his three children, their spouses and his grandchildren. He is a lifetime member of the NRA and in his spare time he shoots, reads a lot of Lawrence Block and John D. MacDonald, and watches Bruce Campbell movies. He is a fan of individual freedom, Tommy Bahama, fine-point G-2 pens and the Oxford comma.

Birthplace

Foxborough, Massachusetts

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American

Honors/Awards

Beta Gamma Sigma

Education

B.A., English, UNCG; M.A., English, UNCG; MBA, UNCG

Location

North Carolina

Languages Spoken

English

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Faith, Business, Leadership and Management, Military, Politics



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