Majority of Top 10 Most American-Made Cars? EVs

Here’s a stat worth chewing on: for the first time ever, a majority of the top 10 most “American-made” vehicles are electric.

You read that right. According to this MarketWatch story, six of the top ten cars on the annual Cars.com American-Made Index are EVs. That includes four Teslas built right here in the USA.

A Milestone That Matters

Let’s recognize what this means:

• EVs aren’t just the future. They are the new face of American manufacturing.
• We’re talking good-paying, American jobs in places like Michigan, Georgia, Ohio, and Texas.
• It is a win for economic security, energy independence, and national security.

But Here Comes the Irony

Just as we hit this Made-in-America milestone, some folks in the U.S. Senate are charging full speed in the wrong direction. They’ve made House bill that would gut EV incentives even worse, proposing to kill the very policies fueling this boom.

Do they not realize this threatens more than 200,000 U.S. jobs tied to EV manufacturing? Most of them are in red states.

That is not just bad policy. It is political malpractice.

The Stakes Are Real

If the conference committee does not fix this, we will be handing China a big win. China is investing heavily in EVs, gaining global market share, and betting we fumble the ball.

The good news? There is still time to get this right.

Let’s Act Like We Know What We’re Doing

Congress should:

• Keep the EV tax credit in place
• Support U.S. manufacturing, not sabotage it
• Stop treating a winning industry like a partisan football

This is not some coastal tech fantasy. It is already happening in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Indiana.

If that is not worth protecting, we don’t know what is.

One small piece of good news: the Senate killed the House’s ill-thought-out attempt to impose a $250 annual “penalty” tax on every EV. Now, we have to see what survives the conference.