Pulling the plug: Three ways Trump has promised to slow Biden’s electric vehicle push if reelected
Jack Birle
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Former President Donald Trump is promising to reverse President Joe Biden‘s electric vehicle policies if he returns to the White House in 2024.
With a second Trump administration, many of Biden’s environmental and energy policies would likely be curtailed or changed significantly. Here are three ways Trump has vowed to slow Biden’s electric vehicle push.
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Reversing Biden administration’s rule on auto emissions rules
Trump has vowed to kill a new auto emissions rule from the Environmental Protection Agency that would aim to make electric vehicles two-thirds of all car sales in the U.S. by 2032.
“President Trump will end Biden’s assault on the internal combustion engine and cancel his harmful April 2023 emission regulations for light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles, that are projected to kill 117,000 auto manufacturing jobs,” Trump’s campaign said.
Ending CAFE fuel economy standards
Trump has also said he will end the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards enacted by the Biden administration in 2022.
“President Trump will also end Biden’s insane CAFE fuel economy standards that will cost the auto industry an estimated $200 billion and raise the average cost of vehicles by more than $1,000 according to the Biden administration’s own estimates, at a time when the average price of a new car is $49,500,” Trump’s campaign said in a release.
The Biden administration has touted the changes as helping “cut greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, reduce air pollution, and reduce the country’s dependence on oil.”
Restrict climate funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act
Trump has also vowed to “stop the flow of American tax dollars that are subsidizing Chinese electric vehicle battery companies” via the Inflation Reduction Act, but his cuts to subsidies could go further than electric vehicle batteries.
One of the other subsidies likely on the chopping block in a potential Trump administration would be the up to $7,500 electric vehicle credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Trump holds a significant lead over the rest of the GOP primary field, with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in second place and the rest of the candidates below 6%, per the RealClearPolitics polling average.
In a general election match-up between Trump and Biden, the RealClearPolitics polling average shows Biden with a 0.5% lead over Trump. The last time Trump faced Biden in an election, in 2020, Biden defeated Trump.