Just Not For Tesla
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California has spearheaded the electric vehicle movement in the U.S. and it doesn't plan to slow down anytime soon. If President-elect Donald Trump repeals the consumer incentives in January, California may restart its EV rebate program, the state's Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed on Monday . But there's a twist: Tesla's EVs would reportedly be excluded from the revival of this rebate program.
EV buyers of all eligible brands nationwide can currently obtain up to $7,500 in federal tax credits, depending on their individual tax liabilities, making adoption easier on the wallet. That’s on top of local and state-level incentives encouraging buyers to go electric. But Trump has threatened to repeal the federal consumer incentives on "day one," falsely calling them a "mandate" and repeatedly attacking EVs on the campaign trail. He only recently warmed up to EVs after Tesla CEO Elon Musk donated about $200 million to his campaign effort. Musk and Trump both support ending the tax credits.
But now California's governor says the state won't budge. “Consumers continue to prove the skeptics wrong—zero-emission vehicles are here to stay," Newsom said in a statement . "We will intervene if the Trump Administration eliminates the federal tax credit, doubling down on our commitment to clean air and green jobs in California," he added. "We’re not turning back on a clean transportation future—we’re going to make it more affordable for people to drive vehicles that don’t pollute.”
Yet his office told Bloomberg today that Tesla will be excluded from this new proposal to allow rivals to catch up. The rebates would come from the state's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, wherein industrial polluters can purchase emissions allowances, which the government then uses to support climate programs across industries, including transportation. “It’s about creating the market conditions for more of these car makers to take root,” the governor's office said in an email.
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You have to laugh at this. Just a couple weeks ago leftists were claiming the "fascist" Donald Trump would use the government to discriminate against businesses that didn't support him.
And then Newsome drops this. A plan that would make even a goldfish say "wait a minute, didn't you just..."
Musk is head of DOGE now, he can do whatever he wants. States rights so each state does what they want. Musk can get what he wants in Texas with that state governor.