The White House announced on Thursday that President Joe Biden will call for up to half of all new vehicles made in the United States to be electric in some form by the end of the 2020s.
Officials said Biden will sign an executive order that calls for between 40% and 50% of vehicles sold to be emissions-free and battery-electric, plug-in hybrid electric or fuel cell electric.
The effort is in line with goals set out in the Paris Climate Agreement, which the United States rejoined this year under Biden.
“The executive order also kicks off development of long-term fuel efficiency and emissions standards to save consumers money, cut pollution, boost public health, advance environmental justice and tackle the climate crisis,” the White House said in a statement.
“The global market is shifting to electric vehicles and tapping their potential to save families money, lower pollution and make the air we breathe cleaner.”
Biden’s administration said part of the effort includes new rule changes by the Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department from those imposed by the government of former President Donald Trump, which it said adopted “harmful rollbacks of near-term fuel efficiency and emissions standards.”
“Through these coordinated notices of proposed rulemaking, the two agencies are advancing smart fuel efficiency and emissions standards that would deliver around $140 billion in net benefits over the life of the program, save about 200 billion gallons of gasoline and reduce around 2 billion metric tons of carbon pollution,” the White House said.
Biden is scheduled to sign the order at the White House at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday.
Political and automotive leaders support the effort.”Our recent product, technology and investment announcements highlight our collective commitment to be leaders in the U.S. transition to electric vehicles,” Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the “Big Three” U.S. automakers, said in a joint statement.
“Today, Ford, GM and Stellantis announce their shared aspiration to achieve sales of 40-50% of annual U.S. volumes of electric vehicles (battery electric, fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles) by 2030.”
In his remarks, United Auto Workers President Ray Curry warned that the United States is falling behind China and Europe in zero-emission vehicle production.
“Fortunately, President Biden recognizes the importance of this moment,” Curry said in a statement. “[This plan] makes the bold investments in manufacturing, consumer incentives and infrastructure needed to ensure vehicles of the future are made in our country.”
“We support the administration’s goal of reaching an electric vehicle future and applaud President Biden’s leadership on reducing emissions and investing in critical infrastructure to achieve these reductions,” Ford added in a joint statement with BMW, Volkswagen, Volvo and Honda.
“These new proposed rules are a critical step forward and will benefit our health, economy and planet,” added Julie Ceqeira, executive director of the U.S. Climate Alliance.
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this idiot wont have an electric car i guarantee it.
This idiot puppet president Biden is to demented to drive.
He thinks the world is a giant golf course for him to play upon, that he can tool about in his electric golf cart. When our American electric tanks and military equipment go dead, the Russian and Iranian bribes that made his family rich will have finally paid off. Just another version of eliminating our pipelines, that fuel our national security, he now goes right after our vehicles themselvs. He will soon have us all in electric wheelchairs which he should have mounted one up years ago himself the first time his mind stopped short right in the middle of a sentence.
I doubt he’s ever driven himself, in the past 40 years.. HE HAS ALWAYS had someone else do it.
You get you an electric 18-wheeler—we don’t want these damned electric vehicles.
Hybrids are the way to go. Pure electric is just a stupid fantasy.
TILL Batteries for electrics, take less than 5+ hrs to charge and get more than a few hundred miles per charge, i will NOT EVER CHANGE..
Yep… and with a 58% increase in consumer electricity bills slated for 2022 (supply and demand these idiots can’t produce enough) we’ll have rolling blackouts … I can see it now… “sorry boss… my POS electric car didn’t charge last night… I won’t be in today.”
Ruin my life bin biden. At least you will be dead by then. I have to deal with an economic crisis involving change under retirement. Unless I become president of the US when I am 82. 😛
It’s easy to command a thing to be done, it was done in Egypt and Rome, but they were basicallly dictatorships and Joe Biden is neither a Pharoah or a Cæsar with a oppressed populatioin, though he is working hard to make that happen. The laws of chemistry and physics apply and they won’t be as easily broken as ones passed into law under the Constitution. Of course by then after all the lockdowns and restrictions there won’t be anywhere to go!
50% of new vehicles will be electric? If you don’t really want to travel anywhere, buy an electric vehicle and let it sit in your garage charging, and feel really good about yourself.
I’ll stick to gasoline vehicles, but thanks for playing.
Isn’t it Tesla that is advising people with their cars NOT to park them inside their garages because of the danger of them catching on fire?
Also, how many cars with batteries have BLOWN UP cause they got into a crash?!
I’m FINE with electric vehicles – AS LONG AS they charge their cars from 100% renewable power sources.
Not 1 WATT should come from fossil fuels!
You want to drive your peddle-cars? Fine, just don’t LIE to yourself (or the rest of us)!
Put your money where your mouth is: Agree to charge your car ONLY from renewable power (not “the grid” that’s connected to fossil fuel power plants)!
The point is: We don’t have enough power AS IS (California is CONSTANTLY telling people to cut back on their electricity use: I just heard a PSA urging people to TURN OFF their computers at night [to save power]).
AND, we’re in an almost CONSTANT state of drought (because some STUPID/WORTHLESS fish [the Delta Smelt] is MORE IMPORTANT to the Leftists than PEOPLE [and produce] are)!
YET, we have Biden and the Democrats throwing our southern border open to MILLIONS of Illegal Aliens who will consume EVEN MORE of our limited electricity and water (and everything else)!
But go ahead: FORCE everyone to put an even HIGHER demand on our electric grid!
I am shocked they’ve not instituted Power rations out there..
This action is largely symbolic. One man (Elon Musk) is already making electric cars the new reality. One day I hope to own one, but I can’t figure out a good transition plan.
By 2030 I’m sure half of all vehicles sold will be electric anyway. Tesla is driving the train, and the rest of the car companies are trying to catch up.
I’m not married to petroleum. I just want the best car. Electric cars keep getting cheaper and they’re already much faster. MUCH faster.
Make it so I can refuel (charge it up) in about a half hour, and get about 300 miles of range, and I’m set. We’ll get there. I’ve been keeping a pretty close eye on things.
This will all happen because one man is doing all the work.
In the end, Biden will have basically done nothing with this effort.
IF they can get more than just 300 miles a ‘charge’, and take a full charge in the same amount of time it, takes me to gas up/eat a good meal, i MAY see a reason to shift.
TILL THEN I will keep with gas.
Make special note that what Biden signed specifies ’emission free’ not carbon free. The reason is that studies have proved that the carbon output for producing electric vehicles is HIGHER than the COMBINATION of production and average lifetime carbon emissions of fossil fuel powered vehicles.
Any good lawyer should be able to prove that electric vehicles ARE NOT emission free. They require the production of steel which requires fossil fuel powered furnaces, they require plastic components that require OIL for their production, they require nickel, cobalt, lithium and aluminum for their batteries the mining and delivery of which requires fossil fuels, ALL of which produces emissions. It also ignores that that mining also results in massive environmental and humanitarian costs which are mostly ignored in the U.S. because those mines are not in our citizen’s backyards.
Add to that, ALL THE FOSSEL fuel, needed to mAKE THE electricity that CHARGE those batteries!!