Summary
The Trump transition team plans to dismantle key support for the US electric vehicle (EV) market by eliminating the $7,500 federal EV tax credit and diverting funds from EV charging stations to securing battery materials as a “national-defense issue.”
This marks a major shift from Biden’s policies, which prioritized rapid EV adoption and a domestic battery supply chain.
The plan includes imposing tariffs on battery parts and materials globally, with possible exemptions for allies.
These changes are expected to slow US EV growth, further widening the gap with Europe and China.
Have they ever in recent history been successful at keeping a society exactly how it is for any length of time, or taken it back to a previous era? It just seems like they love losing and being on the wrong side of history, over and over.
Iranian women - before and after the Islamic Revolution
It can happen here.
I’d suggest that they already are in the process. For example lots of companies have stopped their DAI programms due to eight wing pressure.
Well, there is the Taliban in Afghanistan…
Just because history eventually moved on doesn’t mean conservatives lost, especially because most of the time the draconian, hateful ideologies they push are a distraction to keep the lower classes divided and most of the time this strategy is catastrophically effective.
Not really because that’s not the actual point. That’s the marketing.