Was the car that broke down near a West Virginian coal mine in September 2022 electric? Recently, Donald Trump shared a link (via Truth Social) to a September 2, 2022 Western journal article that described an electric car needing to be pushed up to a coal plant to get charged. > “Today at our mine off Corridor H an electric car from DC ran out of battery at the road entrance to the mine. Someone called one of our foreman and told him a car was broke down in the middle of our haul road,” [Senator Randy Smith] wrote. However, the picture from the article looks like they are charging the 12 volt battery under the hood, not any sort of main drive battery pack. > ![Photo of car being charged]( Is this really an EV? The only other picture was from behind but it was not possible to see if it had an exhaust pipe.

The vehicle appears to be a Kia Niro EV.

As mentioned in the comments, the Niro has only been available as a hybrid, a plug-in hybrid or a fully electric vehicle. The first-generation Kia Niro EV (fully-electric) had a black panel instead of a front grille, and this black panel is visible in the photo.

On the fully-electric version, the inlet for charging the high-voltage battery is next to the left headlight, corresponding to the location in the picture. See this article for close-up pictures of the charging port location. As shown on Wikipedia above, the plug-in hybrid version has the inlet on the left front fender instead.

Although most Level 1 (120-Volt) mobile chargers have black cords, a cursory Google search shows some Kia-branded chargers with orange-coloured cords.