{"id":231761,"date":"2022-09-14T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=231761"},"modified":"2022-09-14T16:58:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:58:29","slug":"president-biden-drops-900m-announcement-at-detroit-auto-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2022\/09\/president-biden-drops-900m-announcement-at-detroit-auto-show\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden Drops $900M Announcement at Detroit Auto Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Biden visited the Detroit Auto Show Wednesday, using the backdrop to announce $900 million in grants for electric vehicle charging systems distributed to 35 states.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Joe Biden announced a plan to offer $900 million in funding for EV charging infrastructure \u2014 then toured the Detroit Auto Show.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The grants form the initial investment in what will become $5 billion allocated as part of last November\u2019s bipartisan infrastructure law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You are going to be part of a network of 500,000 charging stations,” Biden said a crowd of union workers at the show. “The great American road trip is going to be fully electrified whether you’re driving along the coast, or on I-75 here in Michigan.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President tours the show floor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Security was tight at Huntington Place \u2014 formerly Cobo Hall \u2014 convention center throughout the day. Secret Service inspected every vehicle arriving at the parking structure, including a visit by a bomb-sniffing dog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the first few press conferences, everyone was ushered out of the main show floor before the President and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg took their tour accompanied by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, auto industry executives, and members of Michigan\u2019s Congressional delegation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president said it was Whitmer who invited him to check out the show. He also got the chance to get behind the wheel of a few of the electrics, including the Cadillac Lyriq. However, Biden couldn\u2019t help but default to his longtime favorite \u2014 the Corvette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Biden talked about the push to expand the nation’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful car, but I love the Corvette,\u201d he said. Biden famously still owns the 1967 Corvette Stingray his father, a former GM distributor, bought him as a wedding gift. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden also toured the Ford and Stellantis displays after talking up the $900 million investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big investment needed to hit target<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Upgrading the country\u2019s charging network is critical to Biden\u2019s national goal for electric vehicles to make up 50% of all vehicles sold in the United States by 2030. Per the terms of the next round of EV tax credit in the Inflation Reduction Act, the White House and Congress are attempting to make both new and used EVs affordable, as well as bolstering the auto industry generally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou couldn\u2019t have bigger forces at work,\u201d said Scott Painter, CEO of Autonomy, a subscription-based Tesla supplier. \u201cSupply chain, gas prices, inflation, all these things are forcing a conversion to electric mobility. It\u2019s an historic level of effort right now with investments in manufacturing and the tax credits. People are willing to change, automakers are willing to change. The President is not missing anything; he\u2019s closing the lid on how this plays out. We are going to an electric future, and it all comes down to affordability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the President\u2019s visit to the Motor City\u2019s biggest celebration of its native industry seems like a victory lap, that\u2019s because it is. With the final primary contests of the 2022 Congressional election completed just the day before, the race for control of Congress kicks off today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, with a major election looming, the President is eager to talk up his accomplishments and the legislation completed by the Democrats in Washington. By making this major announcement at the auto show, the President hopes to connect with voters concerned with jobs, high fuel prices, and climate change. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Biden visited the Detroit Auto Show Wednesday, using the backdrop to announce $900 million in grants for electric vehicle charging systems distributed to more than 35 states. Find out more at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20027,"featured_media":231762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8,5,10,1347,9],"tags":[7810,7811,7812,7809,4414,851],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231768,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231761\/revisions\/231768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231761"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=231761"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=231761"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=231761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}