To tackle climate change, we’ll need to plug in millions of cars, trucks, home heaters, stoves and factories.
The administration’s push to supercharge E.V. sales must now surmount resistance from manufacturers and consumers as well as likely legal challenges.
Here is what car buyers need to know about the Biden administration’s proposal to push the auto industry to sell more electric cars.
The Biden administration is proposing rules to ensure that two-thirds of new cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the U.S. by 2032 are all-electric.
New federal rules are expected to speed the transition to E.V.s, a shift that car companies have embraced but will be challenged to carry out.
In what would be the nation’s most ambitious climate regulation, the proposal is designed to ensure that electric cars make up the majority of new U.S. auto sales by 2032.
Competition, not cooperation, has driven the bulk of climate progress over the past few years.
Government scientists have spent a year analyzing electric vehicles to help the E.P.A. design new tailpipe rules to trigger an electric car revolution.
Once a building ground for battleships, the site is a city-within-a-city where companies can test their solutions for a greener future.
The Biden administration hopes its guidelines for up to $7,500 in tax credits will encourage automakers to reduce their reliance on China for batteries and raw materials.