Public Policy Day at the 2023 Washington DC Auto Show consisted of a number of announcements by OEMs as well as five panel discussions, made up of personnel from transportation-oriented government and nongovernment agencies.
However, the Supporting Clean Vehicle Transition panel discussion provided a perspective on the “buy American” provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) by no less a luminary than Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis of the EU.
Ambassador Lambrinidis outlined the EU’s position on the IRA as being concerned by what he called the discriminatory provision of the EV Clean Vehicle Tax Credit, which requires that final assembly of EVs occurs in the US.
