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Joe Manchin Meant to Make Electric Car Tax Credits Hard to Get
Attempts by the likes of Rivian and Hyundai to make incentives more accessible leads the West Virginia Democrat to repeat himself.
West Virginia’s Democrat Senator Joe Manchin.
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US Senator Joe Manchin hasn’t minced words about where he stands on tax credits for electric vehicles. Throwing thousands of dollars at consumers was “ludicrous,” he said, when car buyers already were on waiting lists to purchase them, and not enough were being manufactured in America.