US president to issue executive order establishing the new goal as carmakers say they are counting on the government’s help to meet the new vehicle targets
US President Joe Biden. Picture: REUTERS/EVELYN HOCKSTEIN
“These new actions — paired with the investments in the president’s Build Back Better Agenda — will strengthen American leadership in clean cars and trucks by accelerating innovation and manufacturing in the auto sector, bolstering the auto sector domestic supply chain, and growing auto jobs with good pay and benefits,” the White House said in a statement.
UAW president Ray Curry said in a statement released by the White House that the effort is needed to “build the vehicles of the future”. Electric vehicles represented only 2% of passenger-car sales in 2020, according to an analysis by BloombergNEF. Government data estimates there are about 41,000 charging stations now available to the public in the US.
“Private companies have already installed more than 100,000 public charging stations in the US and investor-owned utilities are investing $3bn to help deploy charging infrastructure for cars, trucks, and buses,” said Max Baumhefner, a senior attorney at the council. “With new federal investments and breakthroughs in battery technology, range anxiety should soon go the way of the horse-drawn carriage.
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