General Motors is lobbying for an extension of a federal tax credit that provides up to $7,500 to buyers of electric vehicles, but GM has angered some Democrats by siding with the Trump administration in a fight with California over fuel-economy regulations.
Automakers are pushing Congress to raise a lifetime ceiling of 200,000 electric vehicles per manufacturer that qualify for the tax break because they know they will have to keep producing plug-in vehicles to stay viable. GM and Tesla both hit that ceiling in 2018.
GM argues its decision to intervene in a lawsuit filed by California over the mileage rules was an effort to ensure there would be one national standard for fuel economy that all automakers could follow.
Read the article at The Detroit News.
