Tell Congress to stop the sabotage of U.S. electric vehicles!

In 2025, 25% of all new cars sold worldwide were electric (fully or hybrid), with wide differences between national markets ranging from 97% in Norway to just 3% in Japan. The United States has fallen from a leader to a laggard, with EVs and hybrids amounting to 10% of new U.S. car sales in 2025 compared to 15% in Australia, 27% in the European Union, and 35% in the United Kingdom. Notably, China, the world’s largest car market, had 53% electric new sales.

In 2026, EV sales have surged even more across much of the world as gas prices rise sharply due to the Iran War. China manufactures about 66% of the world’s EVs, and Chinese EV-makers’ showrooms have seen skyrocketing demand across Europe and Asia. China’s EV exports to Europe rose by 141% in March 2026.

Yet at this critical moment, American politicians are actively sabotaging their country’s role in the future of automotive technology, directly harming ordinary families in the process. The average new car in America now costs over $51,000, enough to buy five of the BYD Seagull EVs which sell for $10,200 each in China but are banned from U.S. markets. The plan in the early 2020s was to build up American EV and battery manufacturing with the 45X tax credits, but the 2025 OBBBA budget tore that up. The executive branch is blocking federal and even state clean air regulations that would incentivize EV-making. And now, a highway funding bill in Congress is pushing a $135 fee to be paid annually by all EV owners — unfairly punitive, as the average gas car driver in the U.S. pays just $70 to $90 in gas tax annually. The U.S. is now in the worst of both worlds on EVs: unable to buy China’s like the rest of the planet, and with zero or negative federal support to build up domestic U.S. EVs.

Ideally, Congress should restore 45X battery and EV manufacturing tax credits and allow U.S. market access for Chinese EVs with conditions of technology transfers, partnerships with U.S. carmakers, hiring Americans, and building EV factories on American soil. That’s a tried and tested model, what the U.S. did with Japanese automakers in the 1980s and what the EU is doing with Chinese EV-makers now. At the very least, Congress must reject further backwards steps like the proposed EV fee.

Tell Congress to stop the sabotage of U.S. electric vehicles!