The House Rejects the Biden EV Mandate – Wall Street Journal

Stellantis delayed retooling a shuttered plant in Belvidere, Ill., for EV production. The Energy Department awarded Stellantis $335 million in subsidies to convert the plant to make EVs. President Biden boasted about the plant in his State of the Union address this year. Before I came to office the plant was on its way to shutting down. Thousands of workers feared for their livelihoods,” he said. “A new state-of-the art battery factory is being built to power those cars . . . 4,000 union workers with higher wages will be building that future, in Belvidere, in America.” Or not. Belvidere Mayor Clint Morris took a dig at the Biden EV promotion, saying he didn’t think the marketplace should be determined by political “winners and losers.”