Auto makers want to keep EV subsidies

 Car and Driver:

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An organization of 42 automakers has urged President-elect Donald Trump not to kill off existing EV tax incentives and emissions regulations, as part of a letter in which the group shared its stance on a range of automotive policies such as automated driving and roadway safety, according to a new story from the New York Times titled "Automakers to Trump: Please Require Us to Sell Electric Vehicles." (Trump is pictured above in a photo from 2020 with the ill-fated Lordstown electric pickup truck.)

The letter, dated November 12, was sent by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation whose members collectively sell the vast majority of new vehicles in the United States each year.
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EVs apparently need subsidies because they are not as easy to produce and sell as regular autos.  If EVs were better and more affordable they would not need special treatment.  It is still unlikely that many people would take a cross-country trip in an EV.   Musk has been able to produce EVs including trucks but the vast majority of vehicles still use fossil fuels.

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