Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign said Tuesday it's a “lie” that she supports an electric vehicle mandate, but her record on the issue suggests the opposite.
The Harris camp Email Ahead of Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio's visit to Michigan on Tuesday, Harris campaign spokesman Ammar Moosa wrote that Vance “would certainly lie” about the idea that Harris wants to force all Americans to own electric vehicles. But Harris supported an electric vehicle mandate during her time as a U.S. senator and has led the Biden administration's massive spending and regulatory push to effectively force more electric vehicles on the roads.
“VP Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate,” Moosa said in an email. “While Donald Trump vehemently opposed the Defeat Inflation Act, the Biden-Harris Administration has created tens of thousands of new clean energy jobs in Michigan and provided groundbreaking subsidies and tax credits for electric vehicles.” (Related: EPA Administrator Says “There Will Be No EV Mandate” Months After Finalizing Rule to Create EV Mandate)
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Then-Senator Harris said, Zero Emission Vehicle Act In 2019, initially Suggested The plan calls for 100% of new car sales to be electric or zero-emissions by 2040. The campaign was carried out When she lost the 2020 presidential election, she pledged to make all new car sales zero-emission models by 2035.
Harris was the second-highest ranking official in the Biden administration, which is pushing the largest EV package in American history. goal It expects EVs and other zero-emission models to account for 50% of new car sales by 2030.
Regulators such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have issued stringent regulations that effectively require automakers to significantly increase the percentage of EVs and zero-emission vehicles in new vehicles by 2032. In addition, the Administration is spending billions of dollars to promote EV production, adoption, and charging infrastructure.
But the administration's EV policies have not been particularly successful so far, and consumers remain hesitant to switch to EVs as manufacturers suffer heavy losses on their EV lines and executives back away from short-term production goals. Charging infrastructure is primarily concentrated in the U.S.'s densely populated coastal regions, and a $7.5 billion program to build charging infrastructure in areas that need it most has so far built only a handful of charging stations.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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