automakers are already ramping up to meet the California rules, as well as aggressive requirements in Europe and China. In response, the rules were ramped up last year to 100 percent of all new cars by 2035. By 2022, nearly 19 percent of California’s new light-duty vehicle sales were electric. When California began requiring that car companies sell a certain percentage of zero-emissions vehicles, its initial target translated to about 15 percent of all new car sales by 2025. car companies have also shown that they can meet ambitious goals. Automakers have met tough targets beforeĪutomakers typically push back against tougher rules and often lobby to get standards relaxed. Here’s why I think the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan can succeed.
I study the electric vehicle industry and policy.
passenger vehicle sales were all-electric. To put it in perspective, in 2022 about 6 percent of U.S. The proposal would require a huge change in production and consumer choice. One big question keeps surfacing after the Biden administration announced plans to raise auto standards so sharply they would likely boost electric vehicle production to 67 percent of all new passenger vehicle sales in under a decade: Can automakers pull that off?
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