Post-Stimulus Electric Car Tax Credit Backers Looking to Biden

A plan to expand federal tax credits for buyers of electric cars didn’t make the cut in the year-end government funding and pandemic relief bill, but financial help for those installing home electric charging stations did.

And next month brings changes to the political landscape that could bolster federal incentives for electric cars after years of opposition from President Donald Trump.

EV backers point to President-elect Joe Biden’s calls for boosting U.S. electric vehicle manufacturing to aid the domestic auto industry and its workers and help Biden meet his top-line climate goal of getting the U.S. to net-zero emissions by ...