Expect pricier EVs, solar panels, and heat pumps as a result of Trump’s tariffs

Tariffs threaten to upend global trade, including green technologies, many of which are manufactured in China .

The first round of tariffs will hurt gross domestic product and cost the U.S. some 142,000 jobs, a think tank says.

Automakers will be hard hit, as $97 billion in parts and some 4 million vehicles come from Canada and, especially, Mexico .

Baums’ concerns are more existential. Trump , he says, is geopoliticizing issues like climate change in ways that will ultimately make it more difficult to share technology, lower costs, and combat greenhouse gas emissions. He would like countries to instead come together and agree that some industries—including cleantech—are too important to put at the center of a trade war. “The planet is burning,” said Baums . “If there’s anything we should try to cooperate on, it’s stuff that makes a clean transition happen.”.