Biden Wants to Electrify the Beast
Say you're a newly minted president determined to enact a climate-friendly agenda, but your only car is a 54-year-old Corvette. Kind of a bad look, right? So when a journalist asks you (or, the person you pay to talk to reporters for you) if you're willing to electrify your other mode of transport, your fleet of armored limos, you almost have to say yes.
Those were the circumstances when a member of the White House press corps asked Jen Psaki, Biden's press secretary, whether the president would consider electrifying his limo (sometimes called the Beast). A few hours earlier, from behind the wheel of a prototype F-150 Lightning, a gleeful Biden had told the press that he would consider buying one of the EV trucks. So it wasn't quite a surprise when Psaki told the press that, yes, Biden would consider electrifying his limo, and that in fact greenifying the Beast is "an objective for him."
An electric beast? On AF1, WH press secretary Jen Psaki was asked if President Biden will electrify the WH vehicle fleet, including the presidential limo known as "the Beast." She said: "That's certainly something the President has talked about and is an objective for him."
