Mitt, California is the place you ought to be…
Ninety percent of all new cars Americans purchase will be electric in the not too distant future, said former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
“Exponential progress and innovation is what’s just beginning to hit the world — now not just in computers,” he said in a speech to a farm group in Utah this week.
But the change in automobiles from gasoline to electric will be coming in about a decade, he said. “You’re going to see healthcare change, automobiles change — in my view, in about 10 years, I’ll bet 90 percent of the cars we buy are electric.”
Romney has a history in the American automobile industry and was born in Detroit, Mich., home of the “Big Three” — Ford, GM, and Fiat Chrysler. His father, George Romney, was CEO of the American Motor Company, better known by just its acronym: AMC.
Romney was in Utah where he made the remarks on Friday to a Utah Farm Bureau trade show. Utah is a long way from Detroit, but it is looking to build out its electric car charging infrastructure to create a refueling corridor in the state.