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Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. Today we have Henry Payne with us. He is the Detroit News

Auto columnist and the host of the weekly car radio program for 9-10 a.m. Detroit.

And I wanted to talk today about electric vehicles. It seems like we're seeing the

death of the electric vehicle right now, but Henry is the expert. So I welcome him here today

to tell us all about what's going on with the industry. Yeah, hey, Tudor, great to be with you.

A lot, lots going on in this industry. There's so much because right now, so we obviously in Michigan, we're extra

sensitive to this, but I think everybody across the nation, so many states have started

auto manufacturing that we're kind of all sort of waiting in anticipation of what's about

to happen, but we're seeing that GM is pausing production and in some cases they are

canceling production on their EVs.

So I'm wondering if you think this is a kind of proactive response to them anticipating these tax credits running out at the end of the month.

Yeah, I mean, it's really been an extraordinary period these last few years, and it shows the flaw with socialism, with government-run

market economics. I mean, we've really been in a period driven by government mandates, by government

incentives going back through the Biden administration.

And it really, I mean, it shows you how far that party has moved left.

They really see communist China as the economic model. And they have been trying to follow that for the last four years, trying to force an electric vehicle market

like China has done and trying to subsidize that to billions and billions of dollars going

into battery plants, huge mandates from the EPA, from California, forcing manufacturers

to eliminate their fossil fuel burning cars.

So all of this has been government driven for the last four years, and then you could bring

in a new administration, which is a free market,

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