The Morning After: Massive, Stunning Fallout

The so-called “Massive, Stunning Invoice” has handed with loads of nasty treats for the US know-how and manufacturing industries. In addition to swinging the sword at primary environmental safety measures, the invoice sticks its thumb within the eye of the EV business. Tim Stevens takes you on a tour of the most salient changes, like the imminent end of the EV tax credit. Becoming a member of that on the bonfire is the used EV incentive, in addition to the rebates for the acquisition of economic EVs.

Equally, for all of this administration’s discuss of bringing manufacturing again to the US, the invoice is a center finger for home photo voltaic firms. The US is the one credible manufacturing rival to China in photo voltaic panels, however the invoice cuts these companies off on the knees. I spoke to people inside the US solar industry who know that, despite whatever tariffs are implemented, this bill opens the door to a flood of cheap, Chinese-made solar panels to usurp their US rivals.

An earlier model of the invoice additionally contained strikes that might solely be described as weirdly vindictive. It beforehand proposed an annual EV tax of $250 (and $100 for hybrid house owners) in addition to a normal levy on all wind and photo voltaic initiatives. Why? A cynic may recommend it was as a result of invoice being drafted to profit fossil gas firms on the expense of actually everybody else.

Anyway, hopefully you possibly can benefit from the vacation and received’t have to spend it panic-buying an EV and US-made photo voltaic panels. Though that’s not really a nasty method to spend a protracted weekend.

— Dan Cooper

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