The effort to force American car buyers to buy electric vehicles appears to be nearing an end, as billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office.
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“It’s hard at the moment to be a manufacturer in the U.S. given uncertainties on tariffs, tax credits and regulations,” said Tom Taylor, senior policy analyst at Atlas Public Policy. Atlas says that “more projects were canceled in the first quarter of 2025 than in the previous two years combined,” according to the Washington Post.
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Almost $8 billion in EV-related projects have been canceled, including a $1.2 billion battery factory in Georgia and a $1 billion factory in Arizona that would have made thermal barriers for batteries.
Huge subsidies were being
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