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Trump says he'll end the EV mandate. The only problem: there isn't one.

Donald Trump said he'll end the EV mandate – but there isn't one. He's thinking other regulations - which his new donor Elon Musk supported.

In Trump’s speech accepting the republican nomination, attempting for a third time to finally win majority support from the country he seeks to lead, there was a short segment about electric vehicles: There are several reasons for this, but a large chunk of it is because China has undertaken a concerted national effort to build up its EV industry at every level – from securing mineral partnerships through its Belt & Road Initiative, building up mineral refining capacity which it leads the world in, and subsidizing domestic manufacturing leading to a boom in Chinese EV companies which has now borne fruit (and in fact, China is now pulling back on some of its subsidies, considering the job done). Which brings up another potential reason that NEVI has taken time to get moving: major republican donor Elon Musk, who just fired the entire charging team at the company where he made all his money.

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