United States (US) President Joe Biden seems to want consumers to switch to electric vehicles. The proposal comes from the US Department of Transportation, which prepares $174 billion to propel electric vehicles.
Media Politico was the first to disclose this information by citing an email that was sent by the US Department of Transportation to congressional staff and had been seen by Reuters, as quoted on Thursday (8/4/2021).
In the proposal, US $ 100 billion will be provided as an incentive for tax rebates. US $ 15 billion to build 500,000 electric charging stations.
Tax Deductions to Support Electric Car Business
This latest tax cut is part of a US $ 2.3 trillion infrastructure and job creation proposal. This will be a big boost for US automakers, especially General Motors and Tesla Inc, which have lost their auto sales incentive in the form of a $ 7,500 tax rebate after selling more than 200,000 zero-emissions vehicles.
The plan also calls for US $ 20 billion for electric school buses, US $ 25 billion for zero-emission transit vehicles, and US $ 14 billion for the tax incentives.
Create Lots of Jobs
Previously Joe Biden had signed an executive order titled “Made in America” that would replace all official vehicles with electric cars.
He said this would create “a billion auto jobs. But he did not set a target for when this plan would be fully realized.
” The federal government has a very large fleet of vehicles. Which we will replace with electric vehicles, made right here in America, by American workers. “Joe Biden said as quoted from ABC News.
Based on the General Services Administration’s report, in 2019 there were 645 thousand service vehicles belonging to the federal government. Postal Service (US Postal company) own 225 thousand. And as many as 170,000 service vehicles belonging to the military. the number is only 4,475 electric vehicles.
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