Here’s a pathetic but not entirely unexpected headline:

The car companies that have gotten used to serving politicians instead of customers want to keep the gravy train running with government mandates to purchase their government-subsidized electric vehicles.

We prefer this post-election message:

In particular, these three Biden-era EV mandates should be repealed in the first 100 days of the second Trump term:

• The California Waiver that allowed a full ban on internal combustion engines in California and states that opt into its standards.
• The Department of Transportation CAFE standards (that by law are not supposed to consider alternative fuel vehicles, but do anyway!).
• EPA greenhouse gas rules under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a law never intended to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.

Trump has a clear mandate on this issue – and automakers whose business strategy depended on outlawing competition from internal combustion vehicles should be forced to adapt to the new reality as quickly as possible.