So long, EV tax credits

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Once Donald Trump won office for a second time, the writing was on the wall. Trump ran on many messages, most of them confusing and contradictory, but one of his loudest and clearest messages was to end President Joe Biden’s “EV mandate.” It made no difference there never was a mandate, just a series of policies designed to encourage car companies to make more zero-emission vehicles and consumers to buy them — Trump was gunning for EVs. As soon as he took office, he started signing a flurry of executive orders laying out exactly how he would start dismantling Biden’s legacy. And chief among them was an order to eliminate all of his predecessor’s electric vehicle policies, including weakening Biden’s tailpipe pollution rules. But the orders were never going to be enough. It would take an act of Congress to unwin ... Read full article.