The Biden administration has set new federal standards for cutting emissions, creating tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, and investing billions in swing states to boost EV manufacturing. Former President Donald Trump is taking a different approach to the technology.
Trump is raising concerns that the EV push will boost manufacturing for Chinese companies and kill manufacturing jobs in the United States. And the two messages could drive voters to the polls, one way or another.
The Biden administration planned to overhaul production lines and have 67% of all vehicles manufactured be electric by 2032, but now the administration has cut the target to roughly half of that after dealing with pushback from automobile manufacturers. A Pew Research Center survey from last year found that 59% of the U.S. had opposed phasing out
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