The London School of Economics (and others) recently reported that he “has proposed a 100 per cent tariff on all imported vehicles”, but for some non-US factories, the figure could be higher. He mentioned “200 or 400” per cent to Fox News before adding “I don’t care” and vowed to stop foreign-built cars “destroying Detroit further”.
He’s hardly a fan of electric cars. But in the run-up to the start of his second term, there has been a surge in the sale of such vehicles. Why? Because there are reports that he could soon kill off the $7,500 (£6,150) incentive to buy them and some consumers are grabbing what they see as their last chance to purchase an EV with a sizable government subsidy.
But a far larger proportion of US motorists are staying with ICE tech – not least because Trump has adopted a ‘drill-baby-drill’ ethos aimed in part at reducing pump prices.
Away from cars, he’s vowed to take under his wing the most inappropriately named country on earth – Greenland, which I know (because I went there as part of my epic London to Miami by Jeep drive) has very little greenery, because it comprises 836,330 square miles of ice!
All this (and more) from Donald J Trump before he’d even started his new job as the 47th President of the United States.
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