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When President Biden announced his multitrillion dollar business plan In March, it included spending about $175 billion to encourage Americans to buy electric vehicles.

The money will help ensure that “these tools are affordable for all families and produced by well-employed workers.” The White House wrote In that case.

Now, as Mr. Biden’s plan passed through Congress, a liberal think tank sought to determine the number of jobs that would be gained or lost in the transition away from internal combustion vehicles.

The report, released Wednesday by the Economic Policy Institute, concluded that it will receive government subsidies focused on developing a local supply chain and boosting demand for US-made vehicles to avoid job losses.

He found that without additional government investment, the industry could lose about 75,000 of Mr. Biden’s jobs by 2030. wants Half of the new vehicles sold in the country will be electric.

By contrast, the report said the industry could add about 150,000 jobs by the end of the decade if government subsidies were aimed at increasing the share of domestically produced electric vehicle components and increasing the market share of US-made vehicles. .

“The payoff is to make the industry a center of good business again,” said economist Josh Bivens, one of the report’s authors. “If we don’t try to react proactively with good policy, we will see continued downward pressure on the number of good jobs.”

What is looming in the transition to electric vehicles is the reality they have. significantly fewer moving parts requires less labor than gasoline-powered ones and is about 30 percent less than production numbers From Ford Motor. vehicle manufacturing industry employment just under a million people domestically, including suppliers.

There are essentially two ways to offset the anticipated job losses: Increasing the proportion of each vehicle’s domestically produced parts—especially in the powertrain, key parts and systems that power a car—and selling more vehicles assembled in the United States.

Mr Bivens and his co-author, economic adviser James Barrett, examine the implications of doing both. They point out that roughly three-quarters of the parts in the powertrain of a US-built gasoline vehicle are produced domestically, whereas less than half of the parts in the powertrain of a US-made electric vehicle are produced.

They estimate that increasing the proportion of domestic content in electric vehicles to reflect gas-powered vehicles could save tens of thousands of jobs a year – potentially more than half of the potential job losses that could occur without additional government action.

But in order to convert potential job gaps into job gains, Mr. Barrett and Mr. Bivens consider it necessary to increase the market share of vehicles manufactured in the United States. The percentage of vehicles sold and manufactured domestically in the United States has hovered around 50 percent over the past decade, according to the study. The authors conclude that if it were to rise to 60 percent, the industry could gain more than 100,000 jobs by 2030.

According to the report, if market share drops to 40 percent instead and there is no increase in the domestic content of electric vehicle powertrains by the end of the decade, the industry could lose more than 200,000 jobs.

According to the Democratic plan circulating in Congress, the current $7,500 tax credit for the purchase of a new electric vehicle will increase to $12,500. An extra $4,500 will apply for vehicles assembled in unionized factories in the United States. If their vehicle had a US-made battery, consumers would get the final $500. Details could change in the face of opposition from automakers with non-union US factories.

Democrats are also discussing subsidies to encourage manufacturers to build new factories or upgrade old ones.

Sam Abuelsamid, an auto industry analyst at Guidehouse Insights, said domestic automakers have the opportunity to increase market share as the industry electrifies, and an expanded consumer tax credit will help.

“They are targeting many market segments, especially bestselling crossovers, pickups,” said Abuelsamid. “There’s definitely potential for them to take some market share from Asian brands.”

Still, he warned that the window to take advantage of the opportunity could be relatively narrow as Asian automakers such as Toyota and Honda, which have been a bit late in their electric vehicle planning, are submitting more electrified offers.

The question of whether manufacturers will relocate production of electric vehicles and components to the United States as demand grows, and to what extent government subsidies can help make this happen, has been a topic of debate in recent years.

Dale Hall, a researcher at the International Council for Clean Transport, a research organization, said in an interview that electric vehicles tends to be manufactured to both save on shipping costs and be more responsive to consumers’ needs in the region where they are sold.

But his group found that there were still differences between regions: About 98 percent of electric vehicles sold in China last year were assembled in that country, with 72 percent of those sold in the United States assembled domestically. One of the main differences is government policy. “China provided a lot of subsidies to manufacturers in the early days,” Mr. Hall said.

Zoe Lipman of the BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of labor and environmental groups that advises the authors of the report, said a key concern in the US is whether automakers will shift production abroad.

“Many companies have made very promising commitments to make major investments in this industry,” Lipman said. “It is not yet clear where they will make these investments.” His group supports government incentives to make it cheaper to buy electric vehicles, and subsidies for companies to set up manufacturing facilities in the United States.

When it comes to vehicle components as opposed to final assembly, the United States seems to lag even further behind other countries. This is especially true of battery packs, which can cost around $15,000 and are by far the most expensive component of an electric vehicle powertrain.

according to report this year By the Center for Strategic and International Studies and BloombergNEF, an energy research group, more than half the value of batteries used in US-made electric vehicles has been accrued by companies located abroad, primarily in South Korea, Japan and China.

In contrast, the report states, “100 percent of the value of a dead battery in China tends to accrue locally.”

Mr Abuelsamid and other analysts argued that battery production will naturally increase in the United States as more electric vehicles come off the assembly lines, noting that shipping batteries can be expensive, increasing the carbon footprint. Manufacturers often want nearby component manufacturers to minimize supply disruptions as well. End announcements General Motors and Ford’s greater involvement in battery manufacturing seems to reflect this sentiment.

Analysts from BloombergNEF painted a somewhat more mixed picture. The report earlier this year revealed that Chinese, Japanese and South Korean battery manufacturers continue to source their most valuable battery parts from their own countries, even after setting up assembly plants in Europe, where the electric vehicle market is growing rapidly.

But Cecilia L’Ecluse, a BloombergNEF analyst in Britain, said there have been a number of recent announcements about new facilities in Europe that will make battery components.

European governments, enacting subsidies for battery manufacture.