Trump to block the government and military from buying EVs

[DBoon]

The incoming Trump administration has even more plans to delay electric vehicle adoption than previously thought. According to Reuters, which has seen transition team documents, the Trump team wants to abolish EV subsidies, claw back federal funding meant for EV charging infrastructure, block EV battery imports on national security grounds, and prevent the federal government and the US military from purchasing more EVs.

During the campaign, candidate Trump made repeated references to ending a supposed EV mandate. In fact, policies put in place by current US President Joe Biden only call for 50 percent of all new vehicles to be electrified by 2032 under EPA rules meant to cut emissions by 56 percent from 2026 levels.

Instead, the new regime will be far more friendly to gas guzzling, as it intends to roll back EPA fuel efficiency standards to those in effect in 2019. This would increase the allowable level of emissions from cars by about 25 percent relative to the current rule set. US new vehicle efficiency stalled between 2008 and 2019, and it was only once the Biden administration began in 2021 that the EPA started instituting stricter rules on allowable limits of carbon dioxide and other pollutants from vehicle tailpipes.

About a third of the population looks to the California Air Resources Board, rather than the EPA, to get their emissions regulations.

my bolding

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/12/on-trumps-chopping-block-evs-charger-funding-californias-emissions/

[Captain Zero]

2. Magats: there goes your $2/gal gas

Magats are all dumbfucks like their chump.

[Maninacan]

3. Oshkosh postal vehicle

I wonder what this would do to the Oshkosh contract. 165000 postal vans 10%ev over next ten years.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. I was hoping Biden would do something to accelerate this before leaving office.

Haven't heard any good news, though.

[Dave Bowman]

4. His pal muskrat won't be happy.

[Bobstandard]

5. It's part of Trumps plan to screw California

Rolling back auto pollution limits and taking away the power of the California Air Resources Board is just a way for Trump to screw California and the people who live there. If you’ve lived in CA long enough you can remember how foul the air would get in the days before the limits existed. It was often horrible. He and much of MAGA would love to inflict that kind of pain on California simply because they’re terrible people. Even if they screw themselves at the same time.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. And the MAGAts will be confused when China keeps powering ahead industrially.