The United Auto Workers union (UAW) wants federal tax incentives for electric vehicles to be amended to include vehicles produced in the United States only.
In a statement released last week, UAW vice-president Terry Dittes said the union is working with the Biden Administration to formulate new tax incentives for EVs that will support the American manufacturing industry.
“The UAW is working with the Biden administration and Congress to make sure that the final legislation extending electric vehicle subsidies are clear that those investments subsidize the jobs of U.S. workers,” Dittes said, as quoted by Reuters.
Right now, U.S. consumers who purchase an EV are entitled to receive a $7,500 tax rebate for the purchase. However, the UAW seemingly wants to change the incentive to only apply to American-made electric vehicles only, like the Tesla Model 3 and Chevy Bolt EV, for example.
Debby Dingell, a Democrat Michigan state representative, supports the UAW’s stance on the EV tax incentives, saying “electric vehicles must be built here in America by the finest workforce in the world” and that “not one American dollar should support our own jobs being shipped off to Mexico.”
GM was the target of the UAW’s ire last week after it announced a $1 billion investment in its Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico, paving the way for it to build two new electric vehicles there.
“At a time when General Motors is asking for a significant investment by the U.S. government in subsidizing electric vehicles, this is a slap in the face for not only UAW members and their families but also for U.S. taxpayers and the American workforce,” Dittes said in a statement.
The automaker has not confirmed which vehicles will be built at the Mexican plant, though rumors allege it will produce two new Chevy electric crossovers there starting in 2023.
GM responded to the UAW statement by pointing to the major EV manufacturing investments it has made in recent months. These include the GM Factory Zero plant in Michigan, a former assembly plant that it is renovating to produce EVs, along with two new battery cell plants in Ohio and Tennessee.
The Biden Administration hinted that it would support the American EV manufacturing industry in its American Rescue Plan that it announced in March. The plan includes a proposed$174 billion investment to “win the EV market,” and “enable automakers to spur domestic supply chains from raw materials to parts, retool factories to compete globally, and support American workers to make batteries and EVs.” The plant will also include “point of sale rebates and tax incentives to buy American-made EVs, while ensuring that these vehicles are affordable for all families and manufactured by workers with good jobs.”
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Well he did promise the ”green new steal” will provide ”high paying union jobs”. Can someone who is informed tell me how much this initiative will reduce the global temperature?
Liberal hot air caused global warming. So they think freezing the economy in perpetual recession will cool it.
It will do nothing and there are tapes that say they know it will do nothing. Nothing wrong to have EV’s as a option but it will not stop the climate from changing and every scientist knows this. They just have to play along in order to keep getting funding.
I am still waiting for an answer to a simple question how much is the global world temperature going to be reduced? There are a lot of intelligent people here that give 500 word answers.
Budlar: The Globe is currently undergoing a Cooling Period, which will HAVE to be acknowledged by everyone sooner or later…. Sweden just told Bill Gates to get lost with his “GLobal Dimming (Pollution) scheme” – and Melinda has filed for Divorce from him. 2 great pieces of news this month to these ears.
budlar, you know the answer… it won’t. NASA predicts, .001 percent of a degree higher at current environment standards by 2056 even with EVs in every garage and street corner.
If can find a different answer, share…
If the UAW cared about keeping American jobs, why didn’t they endorse the candidate that actively worked to rehab our disappointing trade deals and openly bullied corporations (on social media) that tried to outsource work?
Are you guys party shills first and labor leaders second? Because that’s what it seems like to me.
That is one policy aspect of the precious admin that I wish would carry over across both parties nationwide. We need to depend less on China and more on ourselves, Canada, and Mexico.
Mary and Biden are BOTH in bed with China. If the trailer’s a rockin, don’t come a knockin.
Member12: Good Points – I’m sure not every UAW member votes as their leadership says to – Trump got plenty of their votes. I sure don’t like Machete Mary stating to Michigan that they shouldn’t insist on voter ID to combat Voter Fraud. If Mary cannot keep her nose out of local politics then I want to be able to test drive any GM vehicle without an ID.
Melania : – Your Hero Trump Lauded Gushingly over the NEW LORDSTOWN fully electric truck manufacturing plant – granted that at this stage it is only very small potatoes. He in the past also purchased personally an all Electric Tesla Roadster. So if Mr. Trump can like electric cars, why can’t you at least allow a difference of opinion?
Isn’t this “racist”?
I am ok with this, but I would tie the incentives to cost content of the vehicle instead of final assembly. Over 50% of the cost content has to be manufactured in the USA to qualify. The way the UAW presented this its a bonus to VW and BMW (who will assemble their EVs in the USA with most imported parts), and only hurts GM and Ford in addition to Jaguar, Audi and others.
Shareholders shouldn’t suffer the high cost of union made parts either. The left is completely hypocritical if they won’t eliminate the minimum wage.
Melania sounds good in theory – but I’d much prefer American Made Reliability to the current Chinese Junk. In time they might get much better (supposedly) but in the meantime GM’s reliability with especially the chinese sourced parts needs to improve greatly.
I have much less problem with superior Japanese or Korean parts – since those have proven reliability, in general.
Melania, nor should the consumer suffer the high cost of speculation at the market.
Get rid of incentives all together. It’s bad enough evs don’t pay infrastructure taxes but through these incentives we are giving them 10 times the amount of money they would be putting into the system over the lifespan of the vehicle if it was taxed like ice cars.
And remember, the market and the buyers aren’t demanding EVs at all. Politicians, celebrities, and car companies decided that it was time for us to want EVs and only EVs.
One of the reasons I think the 4Runner is still wildly popular despite being made in Japan.
A lot of people choose that over a GM product flush with unnecessary fuel efficiency features like cylinder deactivation or auto start/stop….and likely full of inferior Chinese made parts.
My next vehicle will likely be from Nissan, Toyota, VW, or one of their brands. And almost certainly manufactured in Mississippi, Tennessee, or Texas.
I expect that this will be a sales rebate because not everyone pays enough Federal taxes. And it must not apply for foreign brand that assemble cars in the U.S. because the profits goes out of the U.S.
Tax credits for buying the latest fad? Those who choose this path will then expect the govt. to pay them for expired batteries? The current wave of electrics will only take over junkyards and landfills. Electric propulsion needs much more R&D before it will succeed. Batteries are NOT the solution and should be shoved up Musk’s ass.
David, have you seen what USA does with old cell phone batteries…send them to 3rd world countries so the juvenile population can extract those harmful batteries while they’re in the dump waiting for the next drop. Imagine car batteries… The US doesn’t want a car battery dump here …
I quit a union job and never looked back. Corrupt, no support but come hell or high water, they want your dues! Biggest example…UAW and Teachers Union. Can we say Woke… not working and getting paid off our taxes and going to Hawaii… my union friends did not vote the union way.
The Green Steal is right! For decades NASA has been saying mother earth does her own cleansing and the Sun is the #1 factor that determines our climate. Enters the gov. Create many study organizations with gov billions of funding like Biden is doing with EVs and take their money and invest into those gov study organizations and make millions to get rich! It’s called the swamp…
Now…use the green steal example to open up a new way to spend billions of gov money, our taxes, to hype EVs and invest back into them to make millions off of their created studies.
Keep in mind – these gov funding studies need private companies aka GM, Ford, and others as well as contributing companies – all get gov subsidies funding to build. Ask Mary how many billions gm is getting from the gov, our taxes, to keep the green steal going. Ask her how much she is reinvesting her money to make money. Ask Biden, Kerry, AOC, and tge deep swampers…
Kerry made millions on the green steal and the oil companies at the same time…hypocrite!
Just remember when the gov is advocating, they’re making billions on our taxes while we get screwed…aka the unions. The real job of the are gone and hae been gone…
UAW should stick to working conditions and leave their politics at home. Maybe even work for a cola for their retiree’s. The taxes need to be paid just like every other type of vehicle. As a matter of fact, all imported components should be taxed at a much higher rate than are domestically made components.
I applaud the CAW and UAW for trying to find more manufacturing work in both the US and Canada…..
Canada seems to be changing for the Totalitarian Worst. It will be sad to see Her Go. Thankfully, such tactics here will not be tolerated by Americans in general.