The F-150 Lightning Lariat, which will increase the price / Credit: Ford Motor Co.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to make a groundbreaking announcement this week that will make the majority of new car sales in the US electric by 2032, according to a breakdown. News from New York spoon
The shocking new EPA rule and electric vehicles
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan is expected to announce proposed limits on tailpipe emissions Wednesday in Detroit. The time noted that its sources “spoke on condition of anonymity because the information had not been made public.”
It will be the federal government’s most aggressive climate legislation to date and will make the US a global leader in efforts to reduce transportation emissions.
The requirements will be some of the strictest auto pollution limits in the world, ensuring that electric vehicles make up 54-60% of all new cars sold in the US by 2030, rising to 64-67 % of new car sales by 2032. This surpasses President Joe Biden’s previous goal of 50% of new car sales being electric vehicles by 2030.
Only 5.8% of all vehicles sold last year in the US were electric, so this new rule will represent a “quantum leap” as time he says, for the country.
The proposed regulation will go through a public comment period and may be amended by the government before it is finalized.
The Electrek dam
This EPA rule will be rightly celebrated by climate change activists and people who generally care about the fate of our planet. But the Biden administration is definitely throwing down the gauntlet for traditional automakers, and they’ll have no choice but to accept the challenge.
This will also create urgency for those installing electric vehicle chargers, those responsible for upgrading the grid and the sector for purchasing minerals for electric vehicle batteries.
The time rightly notes that this regulation will almost certainly be legally challenged and become a hot topic in the 2024 presidential campaign. A future administration could also undo or weaken it.
It will not be an easy transition: there will be supply chain issues, technical challenges, and labor and skills issues, to name just a few, seeing as it is nothing less than a complete radical transformation of the American auto sector .
But we at Electrek celebrate this EPA rule as it is exactly what is needed to accelerate America’s electrification transition. Traditional automakers will have no choice but to jump on the electric vehicle bandwagon.
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