California is already a world leader in the electric vehicle industry — but it needs more government help to flourish, according to a new report.
Electric vehicles can cut greenhouse gases and carmakers have big plans for them. But so far, few car buyers want them.News Analysis: Foxconn may prove Tesla’s Musk wrong about how hard it is to build electric carsThe report says of 275,600 jobs EV-related California jobs in 2018, 119,200 were in Southern California, mainly in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
While totaling only 1.5% of the jobs in Southern California’s five counties, electric-vehicle industry employment is growing almost twice as fast as jobs in general, and the pay averages $91,300 statewide and $80,900 in Southern California.The report credits government support for goosing the EV market. “The state environmental goals brought this market to California,” said Judy Kruger, senior director at LAEDC. “The environmental goals and policy attracted market solutions.
“Tesla popped up to bring zero-emission vehicles to California, then this whole ecosystem began to emerge,” Kruger said. “There is no other ecosystem like this in the U.S. We want to protect and support it.” Buffeted by competition from Japan, the availability of low-wage workers in Southern states, and strategic errors by auto-company and union managements, the industry disappeared from the area. General Motors closed the industry’s last Southern California auto assembly plant in 1992, sending production of Camaros and Firebirds from Van Nuys to Canada.
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