Why 35 House Democrats Joined Republicans Against a Major Climate Policy

Check out this recent article in The New York Times discussing the strange political bedfellows of the California EV transition policy.

Though it’s not clear that Congress can strip California of their waiver to create such policy, 25 Democrats crossed over with Republicans in a recent vote to the repeal this waiver. Yet another noteworthy twist in the politics of EVs.

Our own Mike Murphy provides his perspective:

Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist and supporter of electric vehicles, agreed. Mr. Murphy said he supported California’s phaseout of combustion engine vehicles but thought it was not the ideal way to spur E.V. adoption.

“Bans are tough in a live-free kind of country,” said Mr. Murphy, the chief executive of the E.V. Politics Project, a bipartisan effort to narrow the partisan gap on electric vehicles. He said that electric vehicles needed to be a market success rather than a regulatory demand. “You have to win the hearts and minds of consumers,” he said.