US PRESIDENT BIDEN WANTS HALF OF NEW VEHICLES TO BE ZERO-EMISSIONS BY 2030

Thu 05 August 2021:

According to the White House, President Joe Biden will sign an executive order setting the “ambitious target” of making 50% of all new vehicles sold in the United States zero-emission by 2030.

The executive order, to be inked on Thursday, calls for 50 percent of US vehicles sales to be “battery-electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or fuel cell electric vehicles” in fewer than 10 years.

It’s the latest attempt by the Biden administration to reverse former President Donald Trump’s dramatic rollback of environmental regulations and climate protections.

The new target was also announced along with a voluntary commitment from the top three US auto manufacturers – Ford, General Motors and Stellantis – to achieve sales of “40-50” percent of zero-emissions vehicles by 2030.

According to the White House, the executive order issued by Biden would also direct relevant federal agencies to strengthen fuel consumption and pollution restrictions, which were pushed down under Trump.

The actions will “strengthen American leadership in clean cars and trucks by accelerating innovation and manufacturing in the auto sector, bolstering the auto sector domestic supply chain, and growing auto jobs with good pay and benefits”, it added.

Vehicles in the US spewed 824 million tonnes of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in 2019, about 14 percent of total US emissions, according to the country’s Environmental Protection Agency.

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