Washington Post -- The U.S. Invested In Electric Vehicle Battery Plants. Now They May Be Stranded. $6 Billion In Investments Down The Drain!!

[Concerned American]

Go talk to someone on your dirt stupid MAGA level, gomer.

Naw, I'm kind of liking coming down to your level. Let's me know what MAGA is against. Stupidity.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Naw, I'm kind of liking coming down to your level. Let's me know what MAGA is against. Stupidity.

Oh....that's why you support Trump's fucked-up tariffs?? So we can take back 1970s manufacturing jobs from China, gomer?

Instead of making high-tech products like EV batteries, let's make a bunch of shirts and shoes and toys and pots and pans and other cheap ass MAGA bumpkin bullshit, while letting China make products for the future economy. Sounds like a winning strategy, gomer.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

People want them....that's why businessmen 8,000 times smarter than your MAGA Kleetus ass invested in the factories.

You MAGA dumb ***** don't believe in climate change and you just want to kill all environmental-friendly jobs. You want to hand an entire lucrative industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars to China on a silver platter.

Sad, but true.

People want them....

That's why your article said "too much manufacturing capacity, not enough demand"
DURR

You MAGA dumb ***** don't believe in climate change

The climate changes all the time in Chicago.

you just want to kill all environmental-friendly jobs.

Waste all the money you want on those jobs. Leave taxpayer funds out of it.

You want to hand an entire lucrative industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars to China on a silver platter.

If the industry was so lucrative, it wouldn't need subsidies.
If the industry was so lucrative, it wouldn't go under when subsidies are removed.

It's sad that you're a huge ******* moron, but true.

 

[Concerned American]

Oh....that's why you support Trump's fucked-up tariffs?? So we can take back 1970s manufacturing jobs from China, gomer?

Instead of making high-tech products like EV batteries, let's make a bunch of shirts and shoes and toys and pots and pans and other cheap ass MAGA bumpkin bullshit, while letting China make products for the future economy. Sounds like a winning strategy, gomer.

Please continue, it is hard to believe that someone as clueless as you exists---even as a democrat. ROTFLMFAO.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Please continue, it is hard to believe that someone as clueless as you exists---even as a democrat. ROTFLMFAO.

Great comeback, MAGA lightweight.

No facts, no game, and no intellect.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Washington Post -- The U.S. Invested In Electric Vehicle Battery Plants. Now They May Be Stranded. $6 Billion In Investments Down The Drain!!​

OH! The Gloom and Doom from the anti-American Left is off the charts.

Nooooo..those companies will now turn to making Lithium batteries for general use right here in America to stem the dominiance of China. a GREAT win for America!

 

[Concerned American]

Great comeback, MAGA lightweight.

No facts, no game, and no intellect.

I gave you historical facts. You chose to ignore them proving you can't fix stupid.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

People want them....

That's why your article said "too much manufacturing capacity, not enough demand"
DURR

There is "not enough demand" because imbeciles like Trump and the rest of you MAGAs are poisoning the investment environment by removing tax incentives for investing in clean energy.

Of course it's going to hurt investment when you've got a dumb **** president like Trump always talking shit about clean energy.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

There is "not enough demand" because imbeciles like Trump and the rest of you MAGAs are poisoning the investment environment by removing tax incentives for investing in clean energy.

Of course it's going to hurt investment when you've got a dumb **** president like Trump always talking shit about clean energy.

Real demand doesn't need subsidies you stupid leftard.

Waste your own money on "clean energy".

DURR

 

[MisterBeale]

You guys force crap down people's throats and then get a good percentage of the population retching from it and then act surprised if there are any ramifications. Hopefully gasoline will decrease in price as we extricate ourselves from your foolish endeavors.

The global price of petroleum will only sky-rocket should Trump get us involved in the Iran debacle.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Washington Post -- The U.S. Invested In Electric Vehicle Battery Plants. Now They May Be Stranded. $6 Billion In Investments Down The Drain!!​

Hey at least ya had the enjoyment of mocking Musk, right? now it's time to take your medicine...and the real problem is that no one wants to be able to read "War And Peace" while "filling up".

 

[Concerned American]

There is "not enough demand" because imbeciles like Trump and the rest of you MAGAs are poisoning the investment environment by removing tax incentives for investing in clean energy.

Of course it's going to hurt investment when you've got a dumb **** president like Trump always talking shit about clean energy.

If it was worth investing in, investors would without incentives. It's a losing venture -- that is why the money dried up. The business will just adapt to the market or go under. SHM, you aren't the sharpest knife in the block.

 

[westwall]

The U.S. manufacturing "renaissance", Ladies & Gentlemen.....over before it even started because Trump and imbecile MAGA Republicans don't believe in electrical vehicles. Not to mention Trump's stupid ass ******* tariffs.

$6 billion in manufacturing investments.....DOWN THE DRAIN.


From the Washington Post --

Over the past three years, companies have invested tens of billions of dollars toward making electric vehicles in the United States, buoyed by tax incentives aimed at helping American businesses compete with China.

Now, those companies are facing a strange problem: too much manufacturing capacity, not enough demand.
As sales of electric vehicles slow and congressional Republicans take aim at EV tax credits and incentives, the United States is slated to have more battery and EV manufacturing than it needs, according to a report released Wednesday by the Rhodium Group, a research firm. That could leave factories — many of which are already operating or under construction — stranded if car sales continue to slump.

“The rug is being pulled out from under these manufacturers,” said Hannah Pitt, a director in Rhodium’s energy and climate practice.

The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022, included several provisions to push automakers to produce electric vehicles and electric car parts in the United States. One tax credit gives companies cash for producing battery components domestically; the consumer EV tax credit, meanwhile, offers $7,500 to customers for an EV that is assembled in the United States with domestic battery parts and minerals.

After the law passed, battery investment in the U.S. skyrocketed. Companies went from investing about $1 billion per quarter in 2022 to $11 billion per quarter in 2024. Most of that battery investment went to red states, including in the South’s “Battery Belt,” where manufacturers were drawn to inexpensive land and a nonunionized workforce.

Now, however, that battery boom is teetering. In the first three months of 2025, companies canceled $6 billion in battery manufacturing — a record. EV sales have slowed.

Meanwhile, Republicans are planning to phase out the tax credit for producing battery components and eliminate the consumer tax credit for EVs. In a plan released by the Senate Finance Committee on Monday, Republicans suggested slashing almost all the clean energy provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act. The House has already passed a bill that would repeal most of the provisions.

“Hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. are now in danger,” Sen. Ron Wyden (Oregon), the panel’s top Democrat, said at a news conference Tuesday. “My own view is that projects all over the country are being canceled as we speak.”

Albert Gore, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, an EV lobby group, said, “Legislators should not be surprised if passing the bill as written, they have created the conditions for closure of a facility in their district.”

Amazingly enough.....I know, you luddites don't understand technology, but I will try to help you....those battery factories can make batteries......wait for it......for other things

 

[OKTexas]

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