Trump’s attack on EVs to be bigger than thought
arstechnica.com
The incoming administration plans to end EV tax credits. Federal funding for charging infrastructure will be clawed back, and fuel efficiency rules rolled back to 2019.

Summary

The incoming Trump administration plans extensive rollbacks on electric vehicle (EV) policies, including eliminating EV subsidies, blocking battery imports, canceling federal EV purchases, and reversing $7.5 billion in charging infrastructure funding.

EPA fuel efficiency standards will revert to 2019 levels, increasing vehicle emissions by 25%.

Trade tariffs, applied globally, will raise EV costs, while California’s stricter emissions rules face renewed opposition.

Public safety regulations, such as crash reporting for automated vehicles, are also set to be repealed.

These policies prioritize fossil fuels and U.S. auto manufacturing over EV adoption and environmental goals.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    13 hours ago

    Lol. Looks like someone got paid off.

    But hey, Americans voted for corruption and regression. So that’s what we’re going to get.

    Give yourselves a pat on the back. We played ourselves…again.

    • Artyom@lemm.ee
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Teslas have no appeal for government vehicles anyways. They’re overpriced, unmaintainable, and unmodifiable. The cybertruck only comes with a permanently covered bed, which is not useful if you want to use it like a truck.

      This will hurt government orgs that want to use electric trucks for short distance hauls and the post office. One will cost you more money, and the other will help republicans in the polls.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    35·
    14 hours ago

    It’s like everyone’s crazy-ass right wing uncle/grandfather who’s still living in 1980 and still thinks EVs are “hippie mobiles” managed to snake his way into power.

    If they only knew what kind of power an electric motor can put out from a dead stop. Maybe we can get them to appreciate the “Tim Allen grunt” aspect of EVs. They are going to flip their shit when motorsports like drag racing switch over to electric.

      • MacEnglish
        5·
        6 hours ago

        An EV doing 500 miles on a single charge?
        Yeah, right. Lol

          • MacEnglish
            7·
            4 hours ago

            If only consumers could have battery quick-swapping technology. I imagine a world where gas stations are converted into battery storage facilities and where everyone all has the same, standardized battery type.
            You pull in over a pit, a scanner locates the battery, a robot arm comes up to yank the installed battery and another arm installs a charged one. Done in 30 seconds.

            • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 hours ago

              Pretty soon we won’t need humans at all! Well I say down with the machines! I say we bring back gas station attendants.

              I for one would like my battery swap to be carried out by a high school dropout of dubious sobriety. You just pull in, wait awkwardly making angry furtive eye contact with the attendant. You can’t tell whether he’s angry, or his face graffiti just makes him appear so. Probably both. He eventually ambles over and preforms the swap. He wipes your windshield in the hopes of a tip. Leaving grimy streaks behind, an apt metaphor for his life past or present. You hand over a fiver over out of guilt more than any appreciation of a service rendered. You pull out.

              Done in 30 minutes. It’s the American way.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    14 hours ago

    The Trump regime’s policies will just accelerate the process of the USA being left behind as the rest of the world advances in technology and infrastructure. Unfortunately the MAGAs will not care, and when it affects them they’ll just pick a vulnerable minority to blame.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    18·
    14 hours ago

    Didn’t the US Army recently purchase what is essentially EV dirt bikes for RECCE purposes and found them extremely useful?

  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    14 hours ago

    Ohhh. I see. They (Trump’s GOP) want to eliminate all federal agencies unless they can be used as punishment.

    I’ve been convinced that they intend to follow through on the decades-long plan to push everything not explicitly in the constitution to the states or private corporations. This article suggests that the EPA could be used to punish ZEV states and force them to do what they want. Yeah - that makes more sense under a fascism.

    The so-called ZEV states (for Zero Emissions Vehicles) do have something closer to an EV mandate, and from model-year 2026 in these states (California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia) a third of all new cars sold by each automaker will have to be battery-electric—assuming the EPA grants California a waiver to allow this to happen.