Here’s a map of China showing those coal burning power plants. It is from an environmentalist website, so the source and validity is indisputable on a Gawker Media website.

China derives 65% of its electric energy from coal.

“China’s government can (and has) issue(d) (blatantly wrong and self destructive) declarations without worry about the consequences”

EV revolution in China?

The East Coast, all the way over to the Continental Divide.

I’m still waiting to turn a profit on all my ocean front property in central Arkansas. It’s the new Gulf Coast, you know...

How about pot holes? Radar with accuracy to the half inch that is capable of reading depth when the sensor is aimed at the road feature from the side, instead of above?  Because you have to avoid hitting the pot hole long before the car is directly over it...

Ha Ha Ha! Global warming.

This is the internet.

Tree hugger buys electric car, because gasoline is evil.

There are two things made obvious by your comment.

275 HP and floating brake calipers?

“Except they were indeed very fast.”

Seems more than clear that they intentionally entered the car in a class it was not eligible to compete in, for the sole purpose of being disqualified, in order to generate outrage among electric vehicle fans who know and care nothing about racing or rules.

GTA Unlimited class allows “any fuel”.

Unlimited Class allows any fuel. There is no prohibition of electric vehicles from GTA. There is a prohibition of electric vehicles from Enthusiast Class. The car was entered in the wrong class. The driver would have finished DFL in Unlimited AWD, which was the class the vehicle would be legal in.

Each competitor is solely responsible for classing their car correctly and making sure that all modifications done to the car are legal for the class they are competing in.

It’s worse than that. Go to the specific rules for the class he entered and competed in: “Enthusiast Class”.  That class specifically requires either unleaded gasoline or diesel as the only permitted fuel.

“Electricity is not an approved fuel in the Enthusiast Class” would be most accurate.

VII. Enthusiast Class. B. Engine/Drivetrain/Fuel.