Explainer: Trump aims at Biden's Inflation Reduction Act: EVs, clean energy and manufacturing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : UNDER THREATThe IRA provided $14.2 billion in incentives for purchasing emissions-free vehicles, such as electric vehicles, with income limits, and for installing alternative fueling equipment.
56% : UNCLEARThe IRA creates a $20 billion "Green Bank" for energy investments, with a focus on poor and disadvantaged communities and spends $14.8 billion monitoring and reducing pollution, and in grants for disadvantaged neighborhoods.
54% : Trump advisers, meanwhile, have made a series of recommendations already that the Trump administration is expected to consider.
51% : Trump advisers are recommending redirecting money now flowing to building charging stations and making EVs affordable into national-defense priorities.
50% : UNCLEARThe IRA created $62.7 billion in new tax credits for emissions-free electricity sources and storage, including wind, solar, geothermal and advanced nuclear and extended $51.1 billion in existing tax credits for wind and solar powerIt also created $30 billion in tax credits to help existing nuclear reactors from closing.
31% : Aviation officials fear the rollback of green jet fuel credits and the Biden administration has yet to finalize the rules for the credits and may not before Trump takes office on Jan. 20.
25% : While Trump has expressed scepticism about wind and solar power, so far this part of the IRA has not been targeted with any specific recommendations.
23% : Trump plans to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicle purchase.

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