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Filtering Climate Change Policy through Labor-Management Politics

Tesla is the world's largest manufacturer of electric vehicles.  It is also the one corporate word that comes to mind when one hears the phrase "electric cars." And it has a plant for making them in California.  It was odd, then, that when President Biden held a press event specifically to tout his program for spurring American made EVs, there were corporate executives present, with great smiles: execs from GM, from Ford, and from the successor-corp. to Chrysler, now known as Stellantis. But nobody from Tesla.  Heck, Ford's recent entry into this market is the Mach-E. But it doesn't make them in the US. It makes them in Mexico. Yet Ford is at the big Event and Tesla is not?  Fortunately, Biden's press secretary, Jen Psaki, explained the reason for us. "Well, these [GM, Ford, and Stellantis] are the three largest employers of the United Auto Workers, so I'll let you draw your own conclusions."    So it seems safe to infer that US EV policy under P...