Posted on 11/22/2024 5:33:38 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Executives at Ford Motor Company, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis are begging President-elect Donald Trump to keep in place President Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates. The plea comes as automakers have invested billions in EVs that have failed to turn a profit.
In March of this year, Biden issued a federal regulation to begin phasing out gas-powered cars, requiring American automakers to produce EVs and ensure that by 2032, the majority of new cars sold in the U.S. market are electric.
Since then, Ford, GM, and Stellantis have staked their futures on EVs. The results have been bleak as the initiative remains unprofitable, with American consumers turned off to the high cost and increased issues that arise with EVs.
The auto executives are now quietly lobbying Trump to keep Biden’s EV mandates — despite a recent study showing almost 125,000 auto manufacturing jobs are at risk of being eliminated due to the federal rule.
The New York Times reports:
Three of the nation’s largest automakers, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, are strategizing with other car manufacturers on how to make a delicate request of President-elect Donald J. Trump: Don’t scrap the federal regulations that compel the industry to sell electric vehicles. [Emphasis added]
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Listen to your customers, not politicians and bureaucrats ya dummies.
In reality, no president has the authority to mandate anything. They have to follow the constitution and be within existing laws.
As for the big three automakers they can F’ themselves and their EV BS.
They chose poorly. And knew it beforehand.
Tell them to grow up.
I believe the term is sunken costs. They would have to spend about as much to get out of doing EV vehicles than they did getting into them.
Reverse Everything This Puppet Mandated.
Sounds like your normal Democrat eff-up. Maneuver a situation into a place that the only way out is to dig deeper. We really do need a very special guillotine for these types of folks who pretend skill, but demonstrate ineptness. And the problem is that they take we productive folks down with them. Since I’m a EE, I know N reasons to avoid electric cars, where N is big. And I’ll agree to take a damned e-car, or a bus/train ONLY when I see those sorry-*ssed politicians sitting beside me.
I hope the boards eject these CEOs without any parachutes.
Screw Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, and all EV mandates.
So………auto companies want the federal government to force them to make cars no one wants to buy?
Building something useless that will never sell because the government told you to , smells like a bailout is a coming
The fools running GM and Ford should have been actively campaigning against being forced to move to unproven EV technology. The Autumn manufacturers are part of the con against the American people and they need to suffer.
Nope.
You idiots blindly followed Obama/Biden and did not push back.
Force your customers to buy an expensive, inferior product. Even if the mandates continue, I will not buy a Ford. I have already banned GM after they cheated the bondholders.
I am OVER any desire for ANY new car.
But if I were thinking of buying one, an EV would be LAST on my list.
I literally could not charge one at my home in any case, so that would mean paying for charging.
Paid charging is on par with or more expensive than gasoline!
And, around here it is mostly done using diesel generators.
So the EV is actually a diesel getting 10MPG equivalent.
Now again, what was the actual reason to have one supposed to be?
I’m a citizen, and I want gas cars. I don’t want the auto manufacturers to force me to buy electric. I hope my opinion counts.
No. And no bailout either.
Within ten years, everyone will be driving a Toyota. (Toyota has refused the EV hysteria)
Let the market decide and sell cars people actually want!
No mandates for anything.
If somebody likes a gas guzzler, let them have it!
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