Dem Rep. Khanna Rips Gov. Newsom: Excluding Elon Musk and Tesla from EV Credits for Political Reasons ‘Is Foolish’

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KHANNA: "Well, California having electric vehicle tax credits makes all the sense, but excluding Elon Musk and Tesla for probably political reasons is just foolish. The reality is, Tesla is the biggest manufacturer of electric vehicles in California. The Inflation Reduction Act explicitly got rid of the caps on companies like Tesla so that they could produce more electric vehicles. And if you're looking just three days ago, The New York Times had a report that China is leading, 1.7 million electric vehicles exporting around the world. We are way behind. We need to be producing more of these electric vehicles in the United States. So, I don’t think politics should interfere with manufacturing or with an issue of our national competitiveness."