An analysis from the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) finds that the Biden-Harris electric vehicle (EV) could gut 123,000 domestic auto manufacturing jobs, and an even more radical proposal Vice President Kamala Harris has pushed would be even more devastating, especially in Rust Belt states.
The analysis, published Monday, finds the administration’s “current EV rules could wipe out 123,000 auto manufacturing jobs,” according to a release.
The administration introduced a rule in 2024 to phase out gas-powered vehicles. The rule requires the majority of new cars sold in the United States to be EVs or hybrids by 2032. As the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board noted, the rule means that “gas-powered cars can make up no more than 30% of auto sales by 2032.”
In her 2019 presidential campaign, Harris’s policy platform included a plan to phase out the sale of new gas-powered vehicles entirely by 2035.
“If Vice President Kamala Harris’s extreme plan for an outright ban on gas-powered and hybrid vehicles by as soon as 2035 is implemented, job losses could soar to more than 191,000,” AFPI adds in the release. […]
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