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0 pointscmrdporcupine3mo ago0 comments

Axed EV subsidization, openly called EVs -- and climate change -- a scam, and then made noises about cutting emissions standards, and aggressively pursued fossil fuel expansion?

That and threw tariffs on the auto makers parts and imports such that their businesses are under threat?

GM just axed the Bolt again. The only domestic affordable EV. Stellantis killed all of theirs, from what I hear. And Ford has pulled back as well.

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stinkbeetle3mo ago

I don't understand your questions, please rephrase them.

Anyway I'm still curious about the mechanism the administration used to direct manufacturers to stop producing EVs, and how they could invoke such a power without covering Telsa or Rivian. Nothing about the administration would surprise me, but I'm surprised there hasn't been more noise made about it.

vablings3mo ago

There is never such thing as "direct action" it is not as if the current president came down and said electric vehicles are banned.

Rather it's a series of policy decisions to try and stunt reemerging technologies

stinkbeetle3mo ago

Why isn't there ever such thing as "direct action"? Seems like a bold claim.

Anyway that doesn't answer my question, I was asking the other poster what was targeting EV manufacturers except for Telsa or Rivian. Seems like blatant Musk and Scaringe corruption if that was so.

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stinkbeetle3mo ago

I don't understand your questions, please rephrase them.

vablings3mo ago

There is never such thing as "direct action" it is not as if the current president came down and said electric vehicles are banned.

Rather it's a series of policy decisions to try and stunt reemerging technologies

stinkbeetle3mo ago

Why isn't there ever such thing as "direct action"? Seems like a bold claim.

Anyway that doesn't answer my question, I was asking the other poster what was targeting EV manufacturers except for Telsa or Rivian. Seems like blatant Musk and Scaringe corruption if that was so.

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