EPA reveals urgent plan to slash vehicle emissions, with EVs dominating sales within a decade
. Stellantis said it was"surprised that none of the alternatives align with the president’s previously announced target of 50% EVs by 2030."
"These standards are very ambitious and they track with the sense of urgency that the president and this administration have as we tackle the climate crisis," EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a Reuters interview, declining to endorse setting a date to end the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles. He emphasized the proposal is a"performance-based standard" and not an EV mandate.
California in August moved to require all new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 be electric or plug-in electric hybrids, but must still seek an EPA waiver to proceed. Regan would not to say how the EPA would react to a California request."We'll be on the lookout for that if it were to ever come," he said.
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