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Donald Trump ends U.S. electric car target on Day One.

David Berthon

On his first day as U.S. President Donald Trump honoured a pre-election promise by abandoning the Biden Administrations electric vehicle targets, despite the fact that U.S. electric car maker Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk had donated $320 million to help Trump gain office. The mandate signed as an executive order by Joe Biden in 2021 was to aim for half of all new vehicle sales in the U.S. to be zero-emission battery electric by 2030. Whilst this target was not legally binding it had already been reduced from 63 percent after Biden had given in to U.S. car makers and lobby groups. Trump has also pledged to tax Chinese made cars out of the US, beyond the 102 percent tariff already applied. At last July’s Republican National Convention Trump said “ I will end the electric vehicle mandate on day one, thereby saving the auto industry from complete obliteration.” I’m David Berthon

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