- The United States plans to revise new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that would have required car manufacturers to primarily produce EVs by 2032.
- Industry players have convinced the Biden Administration to allow more time for the transition, enabling costs to decrease and infrastructure to be built out.
- The EPA’s existing regulations aimed for 67% of cars and light-duty trucks to be electric by 2032, up from 7.6% in 2023.
- The plan is being adjusted to slow the pace at which auto manufacturers need to comply, so that electric vehicle sales increase more gradually through 2030, then sharply rise.
- Postponing the sharp increase until 2030 would have the same effect as the original plan by 2055, but it means more emissions in the short term.
- “You’ll have faster warming if U.S. transportation emissions don’t decline before 2030,” warns James Glynn, a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
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