Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels
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美国交通部发布新规，将企业平均燃油经济性标准大幅放宽，目标降至2031年车型年每加仑34.9英里，低于2020年水平。新规取消排放积分制度，并将插电式车辆排除在车队平均值计算之外。此举源于交通部长Sean Duffy上任后推翻拜登政府时期的相关标准。最终规则通知批评排放积分导致车企未投资清洁发动机技术。新规可能导致部分厂商完全放弃电动车和插电式混合动力车。
The federal government’s war on fuel efficiency claimed another victim today. The Department of Transportation released a new rule for the country’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, which, as expected, discourage the very idea of economical vehicles. Among the changes is a rollback to fuel economy numbers not seen in more than a decade, below even the low standards implemented in 2020, the last time President Trump was in power. The new goal is just 34.9 mpg by model year 2031.
This is nothing if not expected. When Sean Duffy was installed as Transportation secretary last January, he immediately announced that any fuel efficiency standards put in place under the Biden administration were dead and buried. Those rules had a slower ramp up than some might have liked but would have required automakers to sell many more electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.
Now, we may have the possibility of some OEMs dropping their EVs and PHEVs entirely. The notice of final rulemaking criticizes the idea of emissions credits and blames them for automakers not investing in cleaner engine technology, and from model year 2028, such credits are a thing of the past. And plug-in vehicles will now no longer be included in an automaker’s fleet average; under previous rules an EV or PHEV could have a CAFE rating of hundreds of mpg.
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