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The U.S. Transportation Department is expected to declare that fuel economy rules issued under then President Joe Biden exceeded the government's legal authority by including electric vehicles in setting the rules, automaker officials said Monday.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday submitted its interpretive rule, "Resetting the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program" to the White House for review.
The prior administration had "illegally used CAFE standards as a backdoor electric vehicle mandate – driving the price of cars up," he said in a statement.
Removing EVs from the calculations for credits and the regulatory mandates could result in lower overall fuel economy requirements.
The Environmental Protection Agency also plans to reconsider parallel vehicle emissions rules and rescind California's legal authority to ban sales of gas-only vehicles by 2035. The U.S. Senate this week may take up legislation passed by the House to rescind the approval for California's rules. Automakers like General Motors (GM.N), opens new tab and Toyota (7203.T), opens new tab are aggressively lobbying for repeal.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday submitted its interpretive rule, "Resetting the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program" to the White House for review.
The prior administration had "illegally used CAFE standards as a backdoor electric vehicle mandate – driving the price of cars up," he said in a statement.
Removing EVs from the calculations for credits and the regulatory mandates could result in lower overall fuel economy requirements.
The Environmental Protection Agency also plans to reconsider parallel vehicle emissions rules and rescind California's legal authority to ban sales of gas-only vehicles by 2035. The U.S. Senate this week may take up legislation passed by the House to rescind the approval for California's rules. Automakers like General Motors (GM.N), opens new tab and Toyota (7203.T), opens new tab are aggressively lobbying for repeal.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-expected-declare-biden-fuel-economy-rules-exceeded-legal-authority-2025-05-19/
