Pentagon now has to face another major barrier for the purchase of non-tactical electric vehicles or hydrogen powered vehicles. The house has passed the law called NDAA 350-80 last week and Senate voting is expected for end of this month. This is a major blow to the US Electric vehicle industry
Ernst has told the Defense News that this is an expensive investment for a product which is unreliable and has been constrained by the Communist Party controlled China which involved a slave and child labor powered chain of supply. The NDAA according to him should never put climate politics a priority over the national security and Democrats had no choice but to concede this as a point in the defense bill of the year.
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Senate Democrats also included their own provision of NDAA which is going to require the fleet of 170,000 of Pentagon that is non-tactical vehicles which run completely on the alternative fuels or electricity by 2035. The deadline in the bill is five years extended over the 2030 date for transition to the alternatively fueled vehicles which the initial bill stipulated when the Armed services committee provided its draft in the month of June.
Ernst used the position she is in the Armed Services Committee for placing more hurdles on the efforts of creating a green and non-technical vehicle fleet for defense department. She also drafted the provision which is going to require Pentagon for first supplying Congress with the report on cost estimates per every unit for the infrastructure of supporting them as well as a comparison for their lifestyle costs in comparison to the vehicle cost with combustion engine.
This is a report which would also need to provide the assessment of any of the shortfalls of supply chain and security risks which is fire-related while there is an identification of any component with the vehicles that are sourced from Chinese.