The Biden administration reportedly plans to relax its proposal for strict limits on tailpipe emissions designed to push Americans to buy electric vehicles by 2030.
The rollback in the White House position was a result of strong lobbying from car manufacturers and dealers, who said the original timetable wasn’t feasible, considering consumers’ current unwillingness to buy electric vehicles.
The original proposal was to have 67% of all cars on the road be electric by 2032; the current number is 8%. Reports say the new proposal won’t require that kind of sharp increase until several years later, a relief for car companies.
