Auto Industry, Including General Motors, Calls On Biden To Back Electric Vehicles
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The automotive industry, including the United Auto Workers union and major manufacturers like General Motors, is pushing President Joe Biden to roll out tax credits and other incentives that will help drive electric vehicle sales.
According to Reuters, the UAW and two auto industry trade groups sent a letter to the Biden Administration this week calling for the White House to put forth a “comprehensive plan,” to boost EV sales “that takes the present market realities into consideration.”
“Neither the current trajectory of consumer adoption of EVs, nor existing levels of federal support for supply- and demand-side policies, is sufficient to meet our goal of a net-zero carbon transportation future,” the letter said,
In addition to the UAW, letter was also signed by the Alliance for Automobile Innovation, which represents General Motors, Toyota and Volkswagen, along with the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association.
The auto industry wants the Biden administration to put forth significant government tax incentives and subsidies to support both the purchase and production of EVs. The letter also called for the White House to raise incentives for federal fleet EV purchases, boost rare earth mineral mining in the United States and back the development of new hydrogen vehicles.
The White House is expected to release details on a new $3 trillion infrastructure plan this week, which may include setting up roughly 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations nationwide. There are currently around 100,000 EV charging stations in America, according to Reuters.
GM is eager to see the White House support electric vehicles after it committed $20 billion to the development of new electric and autonomous vehicles between now and 2025. Thanks to this investment, the automaker’s lineup will consist of 40 percent EVs by 2025 and it is also hoping to eliminate tailpipe emissions from its passenger vehicles by as early as 2035. GM as a company will also be fully carbon neutral by 2040.
“Climate change is real, and we want to be part of the solution by putting everyone in an electric vehicle,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in a statement released last year. “We are transitioning to an all-electric portfolio from a position of strength and we’re focused on growth. We can accelerate our EV plans because we are rapidly building a competitive advantage in batteries, software, vehicle integration, manufacturing and customer experience.”
The Biden Administration has not yet responded to the auto industry’s letter.
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ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Unsustainable without government hand-outs. We tax payers have to pay to manufacturer and purchase vehicles we have no interest in and that do not work as well as real vehicles, the ones that run on oil directly not second hand. Shame on the unions and car manufacturers. May you all go bankrupt and be replaced by Americans who still want to build our country into the prosperous dynamo it should be.
When we lose our means to travel freely we will devolve into a nation of slaves.
There should be no subsidy for electric vehicles. Let them stand on their own.
Infrastructure is needed no matter who’s idea. If your going to have all these EV’s your going to have to have the generation capacity and distribution network. Then how is everyone going to charge their vehicles. Home with a garage well ok no real problem. Apartment dwellers or people who live in the city with street parking are going to do what? Lots of things to be figured out and construction to be done.
Which type of car would you want to drive on ice or slippery conditions, an EV or Gas? Standard trans are better for control because you can feather the clutch and God help you with a torque-freak EV. Automatic and gas are still OK because I can still shift.
I know many truck drivers hate automatic on big rigs because they are too slow because they cannot pull hills efficiently and etc. Hard, automatic shifts are a big problem when traction is limited.
This crap raises too many questions and these chauffeur-driven pansies have no clue about driving.
When gm goes carbon neutral they will be broke again.
Does the author of this article know that Biden can’t put a sentence together without a cue card or even board a plane. Perhaps if Ms. Barras removed her head from Biden’s behind she, as well as the other 330 Million legal citizens, will begin to ponder where that 3 Trillion Dollars is going to come from.
The way gm treats customers on the service drive says they need zero tax dollars until they start honoring their defective China made junk.
When will EV’s start to excel in sales WITHOUT multi-thousand dollar taxpayer rebates, and when they are going to be assessed a ‘road use tax’ (I HATE to use Buttengage’s term) to equate to what the rest of us pay in ever-rising gas taxes, then I’ll see if they are the godsend that all the environmenties think they are.
Reading everyone’s responses tells me that many were not alive, old enough to remember, or experience the early to mid 70’s economy and the worst part of the mid to late 70s… Democratic administration. Dependent on foreign oil to the point we were rationed and could only gas on odd or even numbers of your license plate. I see happening again now and more so China, 99% of Solar and Wind turbines being made in China and now Biden buying oil from OPAC again.
Inflation was a killer, happening again with borrowing of trillions for “stimulus ” and “infrastructure ” bills. Mortgage rates went as high as 24% and employment figures were reported between 7%-9%… As a high school senior, i was screwed.
Forcing a “gov” sponsored product on people will have negative effect especially when the decision is a knee jerk reaction that benefits only 1 side of the parties for their own bank accounts… are you listening Mary….
From a corporate perspective, shareholders want a big winfall but with 40% gains tax, what’s your hurry Mary… Like any corporation, jobs will leave the US based on corporate tax rates.
I thought Jimmy Carter was the worst but someone else is making a huge run to take those honors….
Never displace history.
The title of this article actually means: Automakers want the government to provide them billions in subsidies payed for by taxpayers. What a scam.