'Stark discrepancy': Report shows Trump embraces EVs at his hotels despite public attacks

Donald Trump has spent years publicly ranting about electric vehicles, but when it comes to business he appears to embrace them.

E&E News by Politico reported that he encourages EV drivers to bring their vehicles to his hotel properties, and has even fitted charges specially for them.

The Trump golf resort in Doral, Florida, has three parking spots dedicated to the battery cars, and they've had them since 2016. Charging stations were also "quietly" installed at his hotels in Las Vegas and Chicago, the report states, along with three condo buildings in Florida and New York.

E&E News cites publicly available data from the Department of Energy and an EV plugin app for the information.

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The story comes as Trump makes ire towards EVs a common focus his speeches at rallies, and has claimed that President Joe Biden's administration is forcing Americans to buy the vehicles.

“I will end the electric vehicle mandate on day one,” Trump said in his address at the Republican National Convention in July. He claimed the move would be “saving the U.S. auto industry from complete obliteration, which is happening right now, and saving U.S. customers thousands and thousands of dollars per car."

Picking big oil over EVs, however, puts Trump at odds with the world's richest man, Elon Musk, the CEO of the car company Tesla and a big ally of the former president.

“I have no objection to the electric vehicle — the EV. I think it’s great,” Trump told Bloomberg reporters in June, but added, “They’re very, very expensive. They’re also heavy."

The Sierra Club's director of clean transit, Katherine Garcia, said Trump's EV charging stations offer “a stark discrepancy, between Trump’s priorities in having EV infrastructure, and his connections to oil and gas."

Read the full report here.