I'm sure it's not only Reps. But if you read the article, there are key swing states that are benefiting from EV. So campaigning against that is campaigning against peoples' jobs. Never a good idea, unless it is a dying industry.

Perhaps - but a lot more people buy cars than make them. And since EV's require fewer workers than conventional ICE's, that's even more true of EV's. The anti-EV pitch is that consumers are somehow harmed if manufacturers are forced to move away from ICE's and make EV's instead.

This is in line with the GOP's general complaint that Green regulation helps Democratic constituencies at the expense of other folks. In that telling, forcing the auto industry to shift away from EV's makes a small group of people (those in the EV business) better off, but makes a much larger group of people (those in the ICE business and new-car purchasers, if EV's are mandated) worse off.

Not a lot of meat on those bones, but probably enough to deflect criticism in places where new investment has been announced, but there aren't any actual new jobs yet.