In a pair of Truth Social posts Monday evening, Trump took aim at the electric vehicle industry and President Biden’s push for more electric vehicles. With this opposition to electric vehicles, Trump is likely trying to persuade Michigan voters to support him over Biden, who carried the swing state in 2020.
The Biden administration has pushed to boost electric car sales, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) predicting that two-thirds of new car sales could be electric by 2032 under a new proposal released by the administration earlier this year. Last week, the Energy Department announced plans to invest $12 billion into converting auto manufacturing facilities into plants for hybrid and electric vehicles.
Trump also took aim at Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers, for supporting the Biden administration’s latest investment into electric vehicles.
Old man yells at sky
Old man urges investment in horses, buggys, and oats.
I don’t know, all those liberal coffee shops are selling oat milk. Can’t the horses eat something more Republican like corn?
Literally. He really should be mad at climate change for fueling the need for EVs.
Gas would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for that pesky pollution.
But then that’s admitting that climate change exists, and then it’s a slippery slope to saying he was trying to start an insurrection and coup, and that’s a big no-no for Dolan Trumpet.
There’s a reason he wanted to buy Greenland, and it wasn’t for the ice.
He thought it was a land of golf greens. As far as the eye could see!
That is entirely believable.
Erik the Red’s naming scheme finally almost paid off.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Former President Trump is vowing to end the “madness” of the Biden administration’s push for electric vehicles — a likely appeal to voters in the swing state of Michigan.
With this opposition to electric vehicles, Trump is likely trying to persuade Michigan voters to support him over Biden, who carried the swing state in 2020.
“The Great State of Michigan will not have an auto industry anymore if Crooked Joe Biden’s crazed concept of ‘all Electric Cars’ goes into effect,” he wrote in the Truth Social post.
Last week, the Energy Department announced plans to invest $12 billion into converting auto manufacturing facilities into plants for hybrid and electric vehicles.
Trump also took aim at Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers, for supporting the Biden administration’s latest investment into electric vehicles.
The call-outs come as about 146,000 UAW members near a strike deadline when their contract ends Sept. 14 with three large U.S. automakers — General Motors, Stellantis and Ford.
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Seems misguided as appeal to a big chunk of Michigan voters. The car companies are all retooling lines for EVs as demand continues to increase and they don’t seem to be turning over tons of employees to do so. For auto industry workers electrification seems to be somewhere on the scale between an lateral move and a boon.
But I’d think it would still play in Alaska and the gulf states where all the oil drilling and refinement happen. Though I also suspect we’ll see hydrogen economy jobs ramping in the gulf states since that’s where Toyota has most of the US manufacturing.
Not only are the autos retooling factories to build ev’s they are investing billions in new battery plants. A big part of the UAW negotiations are making sure that future ev’s are made with union labor. EV’s are coming and dipshits like Trump won’t be able to stop it
Might as well add this to the pile of lies.
I’m just going to leave this here. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/he-lied-ohio-voters-struggle-after-trump-promised-jobs
It’s pretty cool that the President of the United Auto Workers is named Shawn Fain
Chevy ar la?
Well he won’t have to worry about EVs from his prison cell
Goes to show, again, that this dipshit has no idea what he’s talking about. Detroit automakers have been steadily retrofitting old plants and building new ones to increase EV manufacturing capabilities.
i’m more into hydrogen, but EV’s tick a lot of boxes (besides lasting for longer than around 12 years, and losing range in extreme weather)
Fun fact: Cold weather reduces the range of ICE vehicles too. Technically more than Electric vehicles, if you’re not using the electric to heat the vehicle as well: https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/fuel-economy-cold-weather
You need to heat up the ev somehow. There’s some waste heat generated by the motors, but you’re still having to preheat off the battery. And it’s more emerge effecient to keep the main battery warm than it is to cold discharge anyhow
Otherwise your windows fog up.
That’s all true, but you can pre-heat your vehicle before you set off while it’s still plugged in. Even a basic Nissan leaf lets you do that. Either way, even accounting for all that people don’t seem to realise that ICE’s lose efficiency in cold weather as well and it’s not a small amount.
but you can pre-heat your vehicle before you set off while it’s still plugged in.
Not if you’re not at home. At least, not reliably. 8+ hours of keeping the drive battery warm takes a toll while I’m at work.
In any case, you’re absolutely right ice’s loose efficiency. A large part of that is on the preheat cycle, too. (At least for me, in MN. Going home from work, preheat is about 2/3 the time of the actual drive.)
He’s not gonna do shit.
He’s gonna do a shit on a prison toilet hopefully soon.
He will yell, get media coverage, wait a few days, somehow declare victory and never speak of it again. Its the same playbook can we just ignore him until his court dates?
He’ll only do something if he can force some of the production line through a Trump subsidiary so he can get a cut.
Come down to the Trump™ Pump station and get some gasoline
How dare people want EVs! This desire for something Trump doesn’t like must be quashed!
Free market economy but only in things I like
The anti-electric / pro-oil propaganda that “conservatives” pass around is really baffling. They have integrated this stuff into their core belief platform. It’s nonsense because EVs seem to be a really great option to solve a lot of problems, and you’d think people that complain about gas prices all the time would want to not have to buy gas at all.
All the sense that I can make of it is that Russia is an oil-export economy, and they have been pushing the pro-oil propaganda into the “conservative” thought pipeline for so long that it just became part of their religion.
It’s performative opposition. No one really thinks there’s some kind of actually intellectually coherent views regarding incandescent bulbs, fuel efficiency, or solar power. It’s a conditioned reaction at this point. Sure, the oil lobby will oppose it, but it’s not like Big Bulb is trying to get rid of smart bulbs.
They’ve been conditioned to respond to the talking point of “the government is trying to tel you what to do” to such an extent that Biden could win the next election if he announced a government initiative to stop people from chaining themselves to rocks and jumping into the nearest lake.
What’s the ten year forecast for fuel prices again? EV is the future, those not on board will get left behind like those in the 20s who refused to switch from the horse to a automobile.
He has to have polling saying this is a winning message, since he has repeated it a few times and it’s an actual policy proposal.
But dang this doesn’t FEEL like a winning message. The federal government is giving billions to major Michigan manufacturing facilities and he’s…against it?
Probably a winning issue with petroleum mogul donors. He’s trying to fish for money.
Trump as actually a fantastic barometer for where people should focus their values, efforts, and societal goals! Just take the exact opposite of anything this dumb motherfucker says and you’ve got something worth looking at!
“Progress?! Not on my watch!!!”
This is the most accurate summation I’ve seen of Mr Oompa Loompa in a long time.
From MI here, I love my EV and despise anyone who hates on them.
What about those of us who think that EVs only prolong the issue, and that better public transportation for everyone isn’t just a good idea, but the best idea for personal well-being, as well as climate change?
You should be in favour of EVs. Just large, bus-shaped ones. However private transportation isn’t simply going to vanish. So it’s best to support a transition to EV cars as well
I think they should realize that those public transportation have to be powered somehow and that we have to keep developing the technology for EV one way or another because fossil fuel busses and trains are not the future.
I mean, they’re already starting to move away from natural resources for busses. Granted, per person per mile, they’re already drastically more efficient than than any gass guzzler on the road.
Not too mention that subways and light rail are already electric, and we’re moving away from fossil fuel power generation, too.
If we built futures that didn’t need cars, with more walkable locations, mixed zoning, safe bike lanes, etc. our current car-centric society could finally disappear.
Sure, but while I wait for that to actually exist where I live, are you OK with me driving an EV or should I just not leave the house?
