Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for President within the 2024 election over the weekend, and now, some Tesla and electrical automobile (EV) fans are pointing to anti-EV laws proposed final 12 months by Trump’s newly chosen Vice Presidential candidate.
On Monday, Trump introduced that his operating mate could be Senator JD Vance (R-OH), following Musk’s endorsement for the previous president on Saturday. Some within the Tesla and EV communities are actually stating that Vance final 12 months proposed the Drive American Act, a invoice intending to switch the $7,500 EV tax credit score with a subsidy of the identical quantity for U.S.-built gasoline automobiles.
“Proper now, the official coverage of the Biden administration is to spend billions of {dollars} on subsidies for electrical automobiles made abroad,” Senator Vance wrote within the proposal. “If we’re subsidizing something, it must be Ohio staff – not the inexperienced vitality daydreams which might be offshoring their jobs to China. We will safe a vivid future for American autoworkers by passing this laws and reversing the misguided insurance policies of the Biden administration.”
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Vance additionally wrote an opinion piece only a week sooner than the Drive American Act, encouraging the then-striking United Auto Employees (UAW) union to keep away from what he referred to as “the Biden administration’s unjust transition to EVs.”
“These are the details: China dominates the worldwide provide chain for electrical automobiles — particularly for essential minerals and batteries,” Vance wrote within the op-ed.
“Whereas an electrical automobile might bear the brand of Ford, Chevy, or Chrysler, its core parts had been in all probability made in China with Chinese language labor and Chinese language supplies. Two of the Huge Three automakers are dropping large quantities of cash on electrical automobiles. Ford, for instance, loses $32,000 on each EV they promote. These losses result in decrease wages for staff, fewer auto jobs being out there, and better costs for shoppers.”
Final month, Trump advised rally attendees that he was a “large fan of electrical automobiles,” and a “large fan of Elon,” regardless of a few of his anti-EV sentiments up to now.
In March, Vance stated on X that he was totally supportive of Trump’s earlier declare that an financial “massacre” would ensue for the U.S. auto business if Biden continued down the present path, noting that many media retailers targeted too closely on the terminology.
Donald Trump stated {that a} massacre would occur to the American auto business if Biden saved on selling Chinese language made EVs.
He after all is 100% right.
All different reporting about his “massacre” remark is full propaganda. The media needs to be ashamed.
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) March 17, 2024
Musk additionally congratulated Vance on being appointed to the Republican ticket on Monday, saying that it had ben an “wonderful choice” by Trump.
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VANCE
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2024
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