Biden calls for boosting electric car production to catch up with and even surpass China as the U.S.-China war rages on.
The confrontation between the United States and China has become more and more intense in recent years, with no concessions in various fields.
According to statistics, electric car factories sold about 1.3 million electric cars in China in 2020, while the United States only 328,000; according to Reuters, Biden said on Tuesday local time when he virtually visited electric bus and battery manufacturing plants that the United States should boost electric car production to catch up with, and even surpass, China, “We have a lot of work to do, and we should become the world’s the most important supplier of electric vehicles, and right now, we’re way behind China.”
The Biden administration will spend $174 billion to boost production and sales of zero-carbon vehicles and expand electric vehicle charging stations, including $100 billion in consumer subsidies and $20 billion to electrify at least 20 percent of school buses.
Electric vehicle manufacturer Proterra estimates that 50 percent of all buses produced in the United States will be electric by 2025. There are currently more than 475,000 school buses and 65,000 transit buses in the U.S., the vast majority of which are fuel-fired.
Proterra, a U.S. vehicle and energy storage company based in Burlingame, California, designs and manufactures the electric buses and charging systems that currently supply hundreds of public buses in the United States.
Biden said all U.S.-made buses will be zero-carbon-emission vehicles by 2030, but it’s uncertain whether that goal will be reached.
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