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Monday, August 12th, 2019

Trump is trying to kill electric cars but will kill jobs and the climate instead

Author:     JOE ROMM
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     AUG 2, 2019, 8:00 AM
 Link: Trump is trying to kill electric cars but will kill jobs and the climate instead
Stephan:   Trump and the Republican Party are condemning America to second-tier status in the development, manufacture, and marketing of non-carbon technologies, which are coming on much as computers took over world culture. If you were alive and aware you remember the transformation from no computers to computers to Netscape and the internet. Would you say those worlds were very different? And so it will be with the transition from carbon to non-carbon. We have a Republican president, administration, and senate acting in deference to the rich who own the party, and actively sabotaging the nation's best interests in order to keep oil alive a little longer. Here is the data, and what it implies.

Aerial view of electric cars lining up at Kandi Electric Vehicles Group Co., Ltd in Changxing County on October 24, 2017 in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province of China.
Credit: by Tan Yunfeng/VCG

Two new analyses from Bloomberg this week make clear just how bad President Donald Trump’s policies are for the domestic electric car market and U.S. workers.

In the first report, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) explains that Trump’s plan to roll back Obama-era fuel efficiency and emissions standards for vehicles would eliminate any federal requirement for carmakers to build electric vehicles (EVs). BNEF also explains that the deal Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, and BMW struck with California last week to avoid the full rollback will not undo most of the damage.

In the second, BNEF concluded that the rapid price drops in the cost of batteries that have driven the energy storage and EV revolutions this decade will continue for the next decade.

In short, while Trump can slow adoption of high-efficiency EVs in the United States, other countries — the E.U. and especially […]

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2 Comments

  1. sam crespi on Monday, August 12, 2019 at 8:28 am

    This won’t happen. The auto industry is making changes, shifting to greater production of EV cars and have made announcements over the last couple of months about this.

  2. Rev. Dean on Monday, August 12, 2019 at 2:47 pm

    Republicans have no qualms about destroying the world and all the people and fauna and flora upon it. They are disgustingly “anti-life”.