While a Trump presidency couldn’t slam the brakes on the E.V. transition, it could throw enough sand in the gears to slow it down. And that might have significant consequences for the fight to stop global warming.
15 points
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The core policies are:
- A subsidy which targets cheaper EVs to not-super-rich and limits it to cars with key components made in the US
- An emissions rule which will effectively force a significant fraction of cars sold to be EVs in a few years
- subsidies for new factories
Trump will surely get rid of those.
The tariff he hasn’t really weighed in on; he seems to think of himself as a mercantilist, so he might keep it.
3 points