The Biden administration’s new standards for fuel economy and global warming emissions help put the car industry back on a path toward addressing climate change, undoing much of the previous administration’s damage.
The new targets will drive improvements in the efficiency of gasoline-powered vehicles while pushing the industry to deploy electric vehicles. However, gasoline-powered vehicles would continue to dominate new vehicle sales under these rules. Economic and climate modeling shows that all new vehicle sales must be electric by 2035 to prevent the worst impacts of global warming. The administration must move quickly to set a new round of standards for model years 2027 and beyond, charting the course to a fully electric passenger vehicle market.
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Cooke, Dave. 2022. Electrifying Standards for New Passenger Cars and Trucks. Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists. https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/biden-ldv-standards
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