Above, tweet this evening from my friend Jeff Timmer, former Executive Director of the Michigan Republican Party, now a Senior Advisor to the “Never Trump” Lincoln Project.
Former President Trump railed against the electric vehicle industry during a speech to Michigan Republicans on Sunday, warning them that the state’s auto industry is at risk under President Biden.
“Biden is a catastrophe for Michigan and his environmental extremism is heartless and disloyal and horrible for the American worker and you’re starting to see it,” Trump said in a keynote address to Oakland County Republicans in Michigan on Sunday.
“Driven by his ridiculous regulations, electric cars will kill more than half of U.S. auto jobs and decimate the suppliers that they decimated already — decimate the suppliers and it’s going to decimate your jobs and it’s going to decimate more than anybody else, the state of Michigan,” he added. “It’s is going to be decimation it’s going to be at a level that that people can’t even imagine.”
“The state of Michigan is going to be decimation,” he added. “It’s going to be at a level that that people can’t even imagine.”
Michigan is home to more than 175,000 auto manufacturing jobs reported in 2021, according to nonprofit research center Mackinac Center for Public Policy. According to the report, this number is just 37 percent of the jobs Michigan had at its peak even though it is still higher than other states.
The Biden administration has pushed to boost electric car sales, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) predicting that two-thirds of new car sales could be electric by 2032 under a new proposal released by the administration earlier this year.
Trump also touted the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) he made in 2020 with Mexico and Canada, saying that this deal created “with tough new requirements to ensure more cars are made in American factories by American workers.”
“And it’s happening right here in Michigan,” he added. “And this had nothing to do with the Democrats. They’re going to end it. They want every car to be all electric, except you don’t make all electric cars too much. You know who does — China.”
Trump’s trip to the swing state of Michigan comes as polls show him with a comfortable lead over his 2024 GOP primary opponents. A new NBC News poll showed that the former president expanded his lead over his opponents this month in the wake of his federal indictment, where he was charged with 37 counts of mishandling classified documents and attempting to keep those documents from the government.
President Biden won Michigan in the 2020 election with more than 50 percent of the vote, flipping a state that Trump carried in 2016.
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.
We’ve long known that EVs require many fewer moving parts and that producing them will kill several part suppliers and need fewer assemblers. On top of that, there’s the ongoing shift to greater and greater automation.
Trump knows no more about EVs than he does about anything else.
Doesn’t matter what motor it has, it’s still a car
Someone has to build it
https://youtu.be/Qm9zcFXiXsg
There were a few bipedal carbon lifeforms in the background.
Communities across the heartland netting thousands of good paying jobs in auto and battery manufacturing.
I mean, beyond the politicians trying to score points on slogans of more or fewer jobs, the actual matter is questionable. At best, it’s uncertain, although I’d lean towards the future having fewer jobs for actual humans in any industry.
EVs Are Going to Cost Jobs Across the Auto Industry
https://jalopnik.com/evs-are-going-to-cost-jobs-across-the-auto-industry-1849413566
How EVs Are Reshaping Labor Markets
Millions of automotive, energy, and mining jobs will be created…and destroyed
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-ev-transition-explained-2658797703
Plus, greater and greater automation simply – will – happen. Other: AI could start replacing humans on the design and diagnostic levels.
But – EVs are happening no matter what, and simply burying our heads in the sand about it, as Trump would seem to do, would 100% guarantee Chinese domination of the industry.
Fascinating, but it’s still a car, doesn’t matter what motor it has.
Fact is I’ll go up against anyone in my eMini. I chirp the tires at thirty-five miles an hour not giving tailgaters the pleasure of passing me. It’s so fast it’s scares me, and I don’t scare easy.
Once you go e you’ll never go back …