Halve emissions in six years
US President Joe Biden has announced future emissions requirements for passenger cars in the United States. These are more flexible than initially seemed intended.
The US government is imposing new regulations on the auto industry to reduce emissions. By 2032, the amount of CO2 emitted by passenger cars in the United States must be almost half lower than in 2026. The Biden administration wants car manufacturers to achieve this by selling more electric cars, but also by developing more efficient cars with a combustion engine or hybrid cars. to develop.
The requirements are clearly less strict than the plan previously seemed. Biden follows the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which came up with the watered-down version of previous plans. Initially, the government wanted at least 67 percent of all cars sold to be electric by 2032. This met with a lot of resistance from car manufacturers and trade unions in the car industry.
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