Likewise, much of the specialty automotive aftermarket — the parts and modifications you make to your vehicle once it leaves the car lot — is built around the internal combustion engine. The $51 billion aftermarket industry supports more than 1 million jobs in U.S. automotive manufacturing.
Clean air and the reduction of greenhouse gases are goals everyone can acknowledge. That said, when governments arbitrarily pick technology winners and losers, the marketplace is deprived of choices, and the public suffers. Instead of forcing this transition, the EPA should put in place incentives to support a diversified zero-emissions approach that takes advantage of breakthrough technologies across the spectrum.
The market is rightly skeptical of new EV technology, and right now, it simply does not have the infrastructure ready to support EVs. Yet by using multipollutant emissions regulations to force-feed EVs to the market, the government is effectively putting all its eggs into one technology basket.