New $1 Billion Dollar EV Factories Are Being Cancelled in Georgia & Arizona....Because Imbecile Trump Doesn't Believe in Electric Vehicles

[ThisIsMe]

Good ol Joe cancelled mining in MN and Timmy Walz backed him up. ooooops

No doubt.. a 20 year moratorium in mining rare earth minerals does wonders for our battery industry.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

So, the plants weren't being motivated by real market demand, but by government money?

Because once the taxpayer money is not available for the businessmen allies of hte lefty, then suddenly they just sort of wander off?

Wrong again. I see you still haven't learned to read.

 

[ThisIsMe]

I never said the cancellation of these factories had anything to do with Trump's tariffs, you imbecile.

And the WaPo article doesn't say that, either.

Learn to fucking read, MAGA dolt.

Since Trump is cancelling tax benefits and fuel efficiency programs that encourage the building of EVs in this country, these EV companies don't want to invest here any longer. The tariffs are a separate issue.

, yeah, you kinda did. Read.your opening post, you are clearly tying this to trumps tariffs

 

[Correll]

Wrong again. I see you still haven't learned to read.

No, I think I read you fine.

YOu wanted to make government supported "Green jobs" an big issue in red states, so that you could use that to slam anyone not on board with your "Green" agenda, in the future.

To you, EVERYTHING is about politics and control. I was foolish to take your words at face value. Now I see that this failure of the plants is a GOOD THING.

I hope that the investments do NOT appear so that this weapon of yours can be destroyed.

 

[Doc7505]

This does not happen in business where you have companies cancel expansion over who the President is... things don't happen that fast... the fact is and I'm sure you know this EV's are not a popular car in most of the country sales are way under expectation... has zero to do with Trump...

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Especially in Northern sections of the country where batteries can't tolerate the extreme winter cold and weaken faster...
Alaska for example with a population just under 300,000 has purchased only 3,400 EV light duty vehicles.

Alaska now has 3,492 electric vehicles on the road, but future gowth is uncertain

According to a new report from Alliance for Automotive Innovation, Alaska now has 3,492 total electric vehicles (EV) on the road, with 119 publicly available charging outlets. That amounts to 29 EVs…

alaskawatchman.com

 

[Mac-7]

No businesses are going to invest in this country with Trump creating a regulatory climate of total chaos and confusion. As the WaPo article stated --

The fact is that consumers are not interested in electric cars unless they are heavily subsidized by government money

 

[Leo123]

Even if you don't believe in climate change, why the fuck don't you want $2 billion in investments for new car factories in red states like Georgia and Arizona? This will provide thousands of good paying jobs for MAGA voters.

This is why Trump is doomed to fail. No smart businessmen are going to invest in this country with this fucking idiot as president.

But please....keep on with your mindless blather about how Trump is going to save the country with his bullshit, disastrous tariffs.

MAGA Imbecile.

The market for EV's is microscopic. ICE car factories will soon dominate in the U.S. again.

 

[Leo123]

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Especially in Northern sections of the country where batteries can't tolerate the extreme winter cold and weaken faster...
Alaska for example with a population just under 300,000 has purchased only 3,400 EV light duty vehicles.

Alaska now has 3,492 electric vehicles on the road, but future gowth is uncertain

According to a new report from Alliance for Automotive Innovation, Alaska now has 3,492 total electric vehicles (EV) on the road, with 119 publicly available charging outlets. That amounts to 29 EVs…

alaskawatchman.com

Yeah, ICE cars already have a vast fueling system across the U.S. as well. EV's won't be viable until they construct their charging infrastructure. There should be 0 subsidies for EVs over ICE vehicles. That would level the market then we can see the real truth on EVs instead of jawboning on so-called 'green' initiatives.

 

[Man With A Plan]

This was all private investment....good paying jobs for thousands of MAGA voters in red states.

But no sane businessmen want to invest in the U.S. any longer...because Trump has created a regulatory environment of chaos and confusion, as the WaPo article describes.

Trump is mentally ill and he is going to destroy this country....unless the Republicans in Congress finally grow some balls and stop him.

Like he destroyed the country in his first term? Aren't you the funny one!

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Private investment being motivated by tax breaks and substidies. That was YOUR argument just a few post ago, was it not?


That's not really "private investment". That's government support to push a narritive.

Better than private investment based on Trump's bullshit tariffs....which is going to wreck the lives of millions of Americans, including millions of MAGA voters.

ooooh, I just saw it. Get red states hooked on government supported "green jobs" and then never lose an election again.

See above.

EVERY lefty that discussing Trump's tariff policy,


HAS to exaggerate the issue to absurdity, in order to hide how silly their position is.

All based on the ability to just print money.


Yeah, ok. You convinced me. i am against these jobs. Even if it is "private investment".

See above.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Like he destroyed the country in his first term? Aren't you the funny one!

Trump didn't push these disastrous tariffs in his first term, you hopeless dumb ass.

 

[AveMarica]

Get a better source, I'm not paying to endorse WAPO

You could just read the post, they kind of pasted the content.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

EVERY lefty that discussing Trump's tariff policy,


HAS to exaggerate the issue to absurdity, in order to hide how silly their position is.

Not at all. You believe investing in EVs is foolish. However, it is not nearly as silly as you MAGA gomers believing Trump is going to turn the U.S. into a manufacturing country circa 1970 again with his stupid ass tariffs.

You voted for your own financial destruction. And the mentally ill imbecile Trump is going to give it to you.

 

[AveMarica]

Like he destroyed the country in his first term? Aren't you the funny one!

This makes no sense.

There was a global pandemic in his first term, the country's economy reflected that (just like every other developed nation), and it recovered. In fact, it recovered fairly quickly in all aspects employment, stock market, gdp growth. Biden wasn't handed some smoldering wreckage.

You can take fault with various of Trump's policy decisions but describing the country as destroyed is just hyperbole.

 

[AveMarica]

MAGA gomers believing Trump is going to turn the U.S. into a manufacturing country circa 1970 again with his stupid ass tariffs.

I honestly don't understand the infatuation with increasing manufacturing employment.

Why stop there, why not dream of the glory days of having 70% of workers in agriculture? Production evolves through automation. The employment and wage situation in USA was actually quite a desirable balance, with low unemployment and excellent wage growth. Building things like airplanes is domestically is good, putting tariffs in place for countries that supply us with rubber spatulas and dildos is not good for the economy.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Private investment that doesn't make sense without trillions in government
handouts and mandates eliminating gas cars.

And your brilliant solution is long-term investment in new manufacturing plants that wouldn't exist at all without Trump's bullshit tariffs and a painful rebuild of the U.S. economy.

At least my solution won't cost millions of Americans their jobs and cause financial destruction while imbecile Trump tries to rebuild his insane wet dream 1970s manufacturing economy.

 

[DonGlock26]

We should have just dropped EV's on Japan and saved a bunch of money on the A-Bombs.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

I honestly don't understand the infatuation with increasing manufacturing employment.

Why stop there, why not dream of the glory days of having 70% of workers in agriculture? Production evolves through automation. The employment and wage situation in USA was actually quite a desirable balance, with low unemployment and excellent wage growth. Building things like airplanes is domestically is good, putting tariffs in place for countries that supply us with rubber spatulas and dildos is not good for the economy.

Let's face it....these dirt stupid MAGA bumpkins ain't exactly working on their Ph. Ds.

The only reason they support these tariffs is because Trump supports them. Period.

They are non-thinking, brainwashed sheeple. A year ago, none of these MAGA gomers gave a flying fuck about tariffs.

 

[jknowgood]

Explain to me how Trump's tariffs are going to help working class Americans.....when dumb ass Trump is ruining great projects for working class Americans??

Yes, let's just completely hand over the EV market to China...god damn, why the fuck did anyone vote for this imbecile???

No smart business man is going to invest in the U.S. with Trump as president. It just isn't going to happen.

The Republicans in Congress are going to have to finally grow some balls and dump this imbecile. I know that's not going to happen, but damn it we are so fucked.


From the Washington Post --

Over the past few years, electric vehicle manufacturing facilities producing lithium batteries, car parts and critical minerals sprang up all over the United States. Drawing on cash and tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act, these factories promised to provide jobs — largely in Republican areas — and to set the nation on a path to making homegrown EVs.

But even before President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imports, many of those projects were being canceled — leaving thousands of jobs and the shift to clean energy in doubt.

According to data from Atlas Public Policy, a policy research group, more projects were canceled in the first quarter of 2025 than in the previous two years combined. Those cancellations include a $1 billion factory in Georgia that would have made thermal barriers for batteries and a $1.2 billion lithium-ion battery factory in Arizona.

“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. Hundreds of millions of dollars in additional investments appear to be stalled, he added, but haven’t been formally canceled yet.

“Nothing is more important to business than market clarity,” said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, a clean energy advocacy group. “It’s about as clear as a blizzard at midnight.”

The 2022 climate law that Democrats passed was designed to reward automakers for building cars and parts in the United States. Vehicles qualified for a $7,500 tax credit based on their American-made parts and minerals, and companies could get additional cash if they manufactured batteries domestically.

But many of those benefits could be repealed in a new Republican-led tax bill. The Trump administration has also moved to reverse the Biden administration’s rules on car tailpipe pollution. Just those changes, according to a recent report from Princeton University, could cut EV sales in 2030 by 40 percent.

“It’s working-class people in places like Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan and Arizona that have seen some of these projects get canceled,” Keefe said. “And I can tell you who’s benefiting — China and other countries that are doubling down.”



https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/03/ev-factories-canceled/

How old is your source and facts? Seems you loons lack both.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

At least my solution won't cost millions of Americans their jobs and cause financial destruction

Your solution did cause financial destruction.
How much did green power mandates cost the state of California?
In lives and dollars?
How much are they costing Germany?

How many billions in losses on EVs did Ford have in 2024?

Trying to meet EV mandates without actual consumer demand for EVs
is very destructive.