Flashback Nov. 2024: Automakers Beg Trump to Maintain EV Mandates

Automakers Beg Trump to Keep EV Mandates

Via The Committee to Unleash Prosperity:

Here’s a pathetic but not entirely unexpected headline:

NYT excerpt: Automakers to Trump: Please Require Us to Sell Electric Vehicles – Donald J. Trump promised to erase Biden tailpipe rules that are designed to get carmakers to produce E.V.s. But Detroit wants to keep them. – Three of the nation’s largest automakers, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, are strategizing with other car manufacturers on how to make a delicate request of President-elect Donald J. Trump: Don’t scrap the federal regulations that compel the industry to sell electric vehicles.

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The car companies that have gotten used to serving politicians instead of customers want to keep the gravy train running with government mandates to purchase their government-subsidized electric vehicles.

We prefer this post-election message:

In particular, these three Biden-era EV mandates should be repealed in the first 100 days of the second Trump term:

• The California Waiver that allowed a full ban on internal combustion engines in California and states that opt into its standards.
• The Department of Transportation CAFE standards (that by law are not supposed to consider alternative fuel vehicles, but do anyway!).
• EPA greenhouse gas rules under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a law never intended to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.

Trump has a clear mandate on this issue – and automakers whose business strategy depended on outlawing competition from internal combustion vehicles should be forced to adapt to the new reality as quickly as possible.