By 2016, that plan Was looking unrealisticThanks to the love of cheap gasoline and big SUV with partial thirsty engines. Two years later, with a different party in control of the government, EPA was fighting several states in court Federal Regulator’s plan to eliminate fuel economy and air pollution standards.
In 2020, We finally got a look at these prophet rulesWhich set the average purpose of SUV and only 40.4 MPG (5.8L/100 km) for SUVs and trucks, or only 34.1 MPG (6.9 L/100 km).
Under the former president Joe Biden, the EPA returned to his Congress job to take care of pollution. Was some of the losses under the first Trump administration End in 2021 With strict fuel performance regulations.
But the possibility of selling more EVs was not found by the country’s car dealers. Always a very politically dynamic circle, Dealers lobed The Biden administration had planned to “ban the sale of petrol -powered vehicles” to ban what the Biden administration said.
With changes in the presidency, dealers found What they wanted. At the end of January, NHTSA Were ordered To assess the standards of its fuel economy, and now the EPA is following it.