Donald Trump winning the election is already starting to pay dividends.
The backlash is beginning against the failed policies of the last four years.
And Donald Trump’s victory paved the way for the rejection of this awful Biden-Harris scheme.
Donald Trump’s win is the end of electric vehicle mandates
One of the battlelines drawn in the Presidential election was over the future of electric vehicles.
The Biden-Harris administration is hellbent on trying to force drivers into them to reduce carbon emissions.
Boosting electric vehicles was a top priority of the administration.
American automakers were given taxpayer subsidies to switch to electric and consumers were given a $7,500 tax credit to buy or lease one.
Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a new tailpipe emission regulation that would force automakers to have two-thirds of their new vehicles for sale be electric by 2032.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) dramatically increased the average mile per gallon for automaker’s fleets by upping the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards, which would force them to sell more electric vehicles or pay hefty fines.
“De facto” electric mandates were created because this scheme could never pass Congress.
President-elect Donald Trump ran against the Biden-Harris administration’s electric vehicle mandates because they would be a raw deal for drivers and send jobs to China.
The biggest automaker in the world is speaking out with electric mandates coming to an end next year.
Toyota slams the electric mandates from the Biden-Harris administration
While most of the automotive industry joined the electric vehicle bandwagon, Toyota resisted going all in on them.
Toyota North America Chief Operating Officer Jack Hollis criticized the government for trying to force drivers to switch to electric vehicles.
He said that automakers shouldn’t be punished for selling gas-powered vehicles and that the electric market should be allowed to grow without government intervention.
“The whole EV ecosystem is ahead of the consumer,” Hollis told reporters. “It’s not in alignment with consumers. It’s just not.”
Electric vehicle demand cratered with consumers even with the Biden-Harris administration trying to prop up the market.
Hollis said the electric vehicle mandates create an impossible situation for automakers.
“I have not seen a forecast by anyone . . . government or private, anywhere that has told us that that number is achievable. At this point, it looks impossible,” Hollis said. “Demand isn’t there. It’s going to limit a customer’s choice of the vehicles they want.”
California is phasing out the sale of all gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
Hollis warned that the market would be distorted with automakers being forced to vehicles that drivers don’t want to buy.
“It’s going to distort the industry. It’s going to distort the business. Why? Because it’s unnatural to what the current demand in the marketplace is,” Hollis explained.
Detroit and foreign automakers have been scaling back their electric vehicle goals because of a lack of demand from consumers.
The Biden-Harris administration was the only force keeping them afloat.
Donald Trump returning to the White House means that the electric vehicle charade can come to an end and drivers can buy whatever they want.