It’s hard to believe such supposedly clever people have come up with such a dumb strategy
A strong case can be made that the worst thing that ever happened to the electric vehicle industry was Joe Biden. His strongarm tactics to force Americans to buy battery-operated cars have only stiffened consumer resolve not to purchase them. EV sales had been robust before Biden entered the White House, but the boomlet stalled as conservative voters rebelled and even ridiculed EVs as “Biden cars”.
While EVs have become popular in blue states like New York and California – where more than one-third of the sales have occurred – Red Staters have turned a thumbs down to these cars of the future.
That hasn’t been the only setback.
Deloitte’s Global Automotive Consumer Study recently found: “Consumer interest in [traditional] Internal Combustion Engine vehicles is rebounding“ due to “affordability concerns” about $75,000 plug-in vehicles. Some 67 per cent of consumers said they prefer an internal combustion engine for their next vehicle purchase – up from 58 per cent last year. Just 6 per cent prefer pure EVs and 21 per cent prefer hybrids.
Back in March, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a new emissions rule only slightly less unachievable than its original pie-in-the-sky proposal, which mandated 67 per cent battery-electric vehicle sales by model year 2032 (currently only about 7.6 per cent of new car sales are non-hybrid EVs). But Biden’s base scenario is still that 56 per cent of all model year 2032 vehicle sales must be non-hybrid EVs. Worse yet, Biden would just allow 64 per cent of new vehicles sold in model year 2027 to be internal-combustion-only and just 29 per cent in model year 2032. It’s 84 per cent now.
As a consequence, the odds that a federal mandate of 67 per cent EV sales by the end of the decade could be achieved is about as likely as Trump and Kamala Harris kissing and making up after the election.
But Democrats remain oblivious to this cold reality and are still pursuing a total ban on gas cars by 2035. Many blue state politicians in California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington have already ordered such an anti-choice policy.
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