Whitmer's 2024 budget eyes $318M in subsidies for electric vehicles

 

Whitmer's 2024 budget eyes $318M in subsidies for electric vehicles

(The Center Square) – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed $79 billion budget for fiscal year 2024 aims to require taxpayers subsidize electric vehicles and chargers with $318 million.

Whitmer’s mobility budget includes $160 million for capital investments in rail, bus, and marine transit service expansions, $65 million for EV charging stations, and $48 million over two years for an EV sales and use tax exemption.

Jason Hayes, director of environmental policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said Whitmer's EV proposal “skews tax policy” in favor of EV producers and the small number of people who can afford them.