Honda is calling on consumers to ensure that it isn’t just union-made EVs that will be eligible for future tax incentives moving forward.
Currently, buyers can receive up to a $7,500 federal tax credit when buying a new electric vehicle. The proposed Clean Energy for America bill could see EVs assembled in the United States qualify for a $10,000 tax credit, while EVs built at factories where employees are members of, or represented by, a labor union would be eligible for the full $12,500 credit. Only workers at plants operated by General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis are represented by unions.
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In a statement issued to its media site, Honda said it believes “in freedom of choice for American consumers and fair treatment of all American autoworkers, with all of us working together to fight global climate change” and asks for “equal treatment of consumer tax credits for the purchase of an electric vehicle.”
The Japanese automaker has been building cars in America for almost 40 years and by 2040, intends for 100 percent of its sales to be for electrified vehicles, many of which will be produced in the United States.
“Don’t Honda and Acura customers who want to purchase an electric vehicle deserve the same credit as customers buying one from a Detroit automaker?” the company adds in its statement. “Don’t Honda’s American autoworkers deserve the same treatment as every other U.S. autoworker?”
Honda ends by asking its customers to contact their local members of Congress, urging them to oppose the proposed changes to the EV tax credit.
