Harris' campaign said on Tuesday that it was a “lie” that she supports electric vehicle (EV) mandates, but her record on the issue shows the opposite. [emphasis, links added]
In an email sent by the Harris campaign ahead of Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance's visit to Michigan on Tuesday, campaign communications officer Amal Moussa wrote that Vance “has no problem telling lies” such as “Harry Si wants to force every American to own an electric car.
However, Harris supported the electric vehicle mandate while in the U.S. Senate and presided over the Biden-Harris administration's massive spending and regulatory push to effectively force more electric vehicles onto the road.
“Vice President Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate,” Moussa wrote in an email. “Donald Trump fiercely opposes the Inflation Cutting Act, while the Biden-Harris administration creates tens of thousands of new clean energy jobs in Michigan and provides groundbreaking subsidies and taxes for electric vehicles credit.
Then-Senator Harris was a co-sponsor of the Zero Emission Vehicles Act of 2019, The bill originally proposed requiring that 100% of new car sales be electric by 2040, otherwise zero emissions would be achieved.
During her failed 2020 presidential campaign, Harris later launched a campaign to require that all new cars sold be zero-emission models by 2035.
Harris is also the second-ranking member of the Biden administration Pursuing the largest electric vehicle agenda in U.S. history.
The Biden-Harris administration aims to have electric vehicles or other zero-emission models account for 50% of new vehicle sales by 2030.
Promulgated by regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Strict regulations will effectively force carmakers to significantly increase the proportion of electric and zero-emission vehicles in new fleets by 2032.
and, Governments are spending billions of dollars to promote electric vehicle production, adoption and charging infrastructure.
However, the government’s electric vehicle agenda has not been particularly successful so far, As manufacturers lose huge amounts of money on electric vehicle product lines, consumers remain hesitant to take the step and Executives abandoned some near-term production targets.
Charging infrastructure is still concentrated in more densely populated coastal areas of the United States, A $7.5 billion plan aims to build charging infrastructure in parts of the country that need it most, but only a handful of charging stations have been built so far.
Vice President Kamala Harris is working on charging electric vehicles as she promotes the Biden-Harris administration's infrastructure bill in Maryland. Screenshot via Sky News/YouTube
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