That anti-EV provisions in this bill will simultaneously hurt Tesla, possibly for good, disincentivize legacy automakers from ramping up their EV programs AND sully consumer interest in buying EVs for a good long while, especially when combined with state-level registration tax hikes for EVs. (It costs $225 to renew an EV registration in Texas. It used to be $85.)
All this combined with the protectionist tariffs in place will secure big auto's desires to continue pumping out inefficient and environment destroying gas vehicles (which I posit was what they wanted to do all along) while ensuring that cheap Chinese EVs never see the light of day, customers be damned.
None of this wouldn't have happened if Elon didn't meddle with politics.
This has to be one of the biggest own-goals in American business.
> None of this wouldn't have happened if Elon didn't meddle with politics.
> This has to be one of the biggest own-goals in American business.
All he had to do was keep pushing the environmental progress story, maybe stop overpromising FSD, and he'd still be selling tons of cars.
It's just wild to me that he would cozy up with a political party that were never going to buy his product, and in fact goes out of their way to reduce demand for his product.
US auto makers are going to have to continue working on their EV programs because depending on the car maker something like 40 to 60% of their sales are foreign.
Those markets will continue to become more and more electric and if the US makers want to stay competitive in those markets, they have have to go electric too.
All this combined with the protectionist tariffs in place will secure big auto's desires to continue pumping out inefficient and environment destroying gas vehicles (which I posit was what they wanted to do all along) while ensuring that cheap Chinese EVs never see the light of day, customers be damned.
None of this wouldn't have happened if Elon didn't meddle with politics.
This has to be one of the biggest own-goals in American business.