Auto Report 04-16-24 EV Industrial Policy

Car Radio 910AM-Detroit: Podcast, April 16, 2024


Host: Henry Payne, Auto columnist, The Detroit News


Electric vehicles are struggling in the US market. A Gallup Poll
finds decreasing interest among consumers for EVs. So why doesn’t
the government just encourage hybrids? Because fuel economy is
not the government’s goal. The goal, as Energy Secretary Granholm
has outlines, is a transformation of the US energy economy to
Chinese-style industrial policy, because government bureaucrats
think the future is EVs powered by wind turbines. 2 min. Original
aired April 16, 2024 on the Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF


Headline: Car Radio, Podcast 167: On EVs, the US tries Chinese
industrial policy