How Biden Aims to Increase Electric Car Sales

But if an eventual infrastructure package involves little or no spending on electric vehicles, a tougher tailpipe rule will likely face opposition from automakers and try to build and sell expensive electric cars. And auto workers unions are also likely to fight a swift federal crackdown on electric vehicles without any help from the government. This is because many economists estimate that producing electric vehicles requires one-third fewer workers than producing conventional vehicles.

“My concern is and he understands that whenever we experience a technology shift in the industry, it takes a lot of investment and it always works,” said Rory Gamble, president of United Auto Workers. An interview that talks about her conversations with Ms. McCarthy in March, the person who gave the union leader his personal cell phone number. “We are stressing everyone out in the transition to EVs and making them aware of it”

The turnaround from oil and gas refineries, automakers, and unions could create a political responsibility for a president who proudly calls himself a “car man” and a “union man”, attracting a lot of attention from voters in the industrial regions of the Midwest and Northeast. Including bustling states like Michigan and Ohio.

Environmentalists and progressives now want sharp cuts in pollution.

A recent report by the International Energy Agency suggests that to prevent average global temperatures from rising, 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levelsThe threshold that scientists say the Earth is facing irreversible damage is that all nations will need to end sales of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035. The world has already warmed an average of 1 degree Celsius since the late 1800s.

Exhaust emissions expert Ms. Oge said the Biden administration should write a strict rule that would require automakers to make up 60 percent of their sales for electric vehicles by 2030.

“They need to give federal agencies and auto companies some sort of marching order,” Ms Oge said. “This is a moment every year counts. This is the time to send the message to the industry where to invest by 2030.”