The U.S. auto industry needs a national emissions standard and consumer incentives for electric vehicles as automakers transition much of their lineups to EVs, said David Strickland, General Motors' vice president of global regulatory affairs.
The tax credit is "how you get the amount of vehicles at a price point where you're really going to get mass adoption," Strickland said Thursday in Washington at the second of four regional Automotive News Congress events this year.
"We have to be able to get to a point where we get enough of these vehicles out here so that we ... can be able to make a vehicle one day without the assistance," he added.