Issue Position: New Cars

Issue Position

We have companies in Oregon right now working on designing and building electric vehicles, and the parts that go with them. These businesses employ skilled workers with good-paying jobs, and produce a product that emits 5 times less CO2 than the average combustion-engine vehicle.

Oregonians have already shown an interest in vehicles with reduced emissions and better fuel economy, and by expanding the tax credit we already offer for the purchase of a hybrid-electric car to include electric vehicles, we can give Oregon consumers a nudge towards the next option in alternative, fuel-efficient transportation. This concept was ultimately passed as HB 2078.

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