EPA’s New Mandate Designed ‘to Ensure Nearly 70%’ of New Car Sales be Electric Vehicles Within a Few Years
Bden’s vaccine mandate has proven quite unpopular, as well as damaging to the nation. Should the mandate to expand the EV market go forward, it will likely be toxic to the nation’s prosperity…and create a long list of unintended consequences as well.
Instead of heeding the warnings about the practicality of EV ownership and maintenance in the country, Biden’s EPA persists in using regulations to bend the American people to its will.
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is poised to finalize emissions rules that will effectively require a certain percentage—as much as two-thirds by 2032—of new cars to be all-electric, Politico and other outlets have reported in recent days. The ruling could be announced as soon as this Wednesday.
These standards could first loosen the tough EV requirements between 2027 and 2030, but then mandate an aggressive ramping up of EV sales from 2031. In other words, these revised rules would give car companies a bit of a pass on EVs in the short term, while still pushing for a mostly-electric future starting in the next decade.
Biden will force EVs on everyone:
In a joint announcement Wednesday, the White House and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the most aggressive multi-pollutant emission standards ever finalized. While the regulations target gas-powered vehicles, they are explicitly designed to push wider nationwide adoption of electric vehicles (EV) and, according to officials, are expected to ensure nearly 70% of all new car sales are zero-emissions within a few years.
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When the tailpipe emissions rules kick in, automakers will be compelled to increase production and sales of EVs, plug-in hybrids, traditional hybrids and fuel cell vehicles. Under one “low cost” model EPA outlined in the rule, officials said automakers would be forced to ensure 56% of light-duty car sales are battery electric and another 13% are hybrid by 2032.
The regulations represent a version of the so-called “alternative C” approach detailed in EPA’s original proposal first publicized in April 2023. The White House originally projected last year that, under the rule, up to 67% of new vehicle sales would be battery electric by 2032, but after a lengthy public comment period and meetings with automakers and labor groups, it scaled down the regulations.
We have written several posts over the last two years chronicling the decline and fall of the electric vehicle empire. Some “highlights”
Automakers and car dealers have regrets:
- Hertz Selling 20,000 Electric Vehicles for Gas-Powered Cars
- Toyota CEO: ‘Silent Majority’ Of Automakers Skeptical of Making Electric Vehicles a ‘Single Option’
- Nearly 4,000 Car Dealerships Beg Biden to Pull the Plug on ‘Unrealistic’ EV Mandates
There are specific challenges EVs face under extreme weather conditions:
- After Hurricane Ian’s Floods, Florida Battling Fires from Water-Damaged Electric Vehicles
- Deep Freeze in Illinois Strands Tesla, Electric Vehicle Owners in Parking Lots
- EVs Burst Into Flames After Contact With Saltwater During Hurricane Idalia
There are significant supply chain issues:
- Democrats Begin to Regret Relying on China for Trade in Green Energy Components
- China Tightens Exports on Graphite, a Key Component of EV Batteries
There are also reports that EV drivers are experiencing “range anxiety,” and short trips have doubled or more in time due to charging times. Americans seem less trusting of “The Science” and are now climate-crisis-questioning. This may, in part, explain why I reported there was a noticeable slowdown in EV sales a few months ago.
The market share decline has hit super-progressive California.
After years of rapid expansion, California’s booming EV market may be showing signs of fatigue as high vehicle prices, unreliable charging networks and other consumer headaches appear to dampen enthusiasm for zero-emission vehicles.
For the first time in more than a decade, electric vehicle sales dropped significantly in the last half of 2023. There are even signs that Californians may be growing tired of Tesla — or at least weary of its outspoken chief executive, Elon Musk — as state Tesla sales fell 10% in the final quarter of last year.
Significant layoffs have also occurred in the nickel and lithium processing facilities that process the materials used to make these cars.
However, as interest in EVs has slipped, lithium and nickel facilities – metals used in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles – are taking cost-cutting measures including mass layoffs and suspending operations.
The demand for electric vehicles surged in 2022, rising by 76 percent in April of that year, but by the end of 2023, the number of vehicles sold dropped to just 50 percent.
The “climate crisis” pseudoscience used as an excuse to impose emissions standards so strict that internal combustion engine vehicles would not be an option for purchase.
The rule would require carmakers to cut their average emissions of carbon dioxide 52 percent between 2027 and 2032. EPA projects that the standard would push the car industry to ensure that electric cars and light trucks make up about 67 percent of new vehicles by model year 2032.
A separate climate rule for heavy-duty trucks is expected to be announced later.
The timing of the ruling is intended to prevent Donald Trump from rolling back these Requirements should he prevail in November.
Finishing the rules in the next two months could be critical to insulating them from rollbacks by a potential second Trump administration. Former President Donald Trump has vowed to reverse Biden’s major climate initiatives, directing special ire at what he calls the administration’s “ All Electric Car Lunacy.”
How can one regulatory agency wield such power? I think it is time for our other two branches of government to step in and reign in the power-crazed eco-activists at this agency.
One last thought: Biden’s vaccine mandate has proven quite unpopular and damaging to the nation. Should the mandate to expand the EV market go forward, it will likely be toxic to the nation’s prosperity…and create a long list of unintended consequences.
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The last time the government tried to make us by cars we didn’t want with the CAFE standard we all bought “trucks” in the form of SUVs and mini vans.
China is investing billions into EV manufacturing in Mexico, how fortuitous for them! They’re very shrewd investors, it’s almost like they could see that this mandate would come.
The Big Guy got paid his 10% ?
Who owns the newest lithium mine in Nevada?
First, Us Department of Energy with $2 billion loan guarantee and
Largest shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc, Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., Ltd., Invesco Ltd., Van Eck Associates Corp, REMX – VanEck Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF, VGTSX – Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund Investor Shares, LIT – Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF, Citadel Advisors Llc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, and Bank Of America Corp /de/ .
https://fintel.io/so/us/lac
EVs will be successful regardless of the failure rates because Uncle Sam says so.
And its not much of a stretch to believe that China is not an owner as well (as of 2022)
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/11/china-may-get-top-ownership-of-us-lithium-mine/
And cheep manufacturing (definitely cost and likely quality) of EVs from China from Mexico is just icing on the cake to the money makers!
“Bloodbath” may be a bit timid in describing the impact on the EV market mandate requirements formulated for the US. How many people will come to the US with your EV purchase?
And remember that California leads the nation, and is all about eliminating tail pipe emissions (2035) since CO2 is the magic, one-size-fits-all government solution button solving the “climate change” crisis.
Yup. Its all the same cartel making the rules then providing the “necessary” product (at a “small” profit of course….) the rules mandate be sold.
Guess I’ll just keep buying used anyway. I’ve seen nothing in the past ten years I’d want to drive, anyway. My workhorse is a 1998, my backup economy runabout is a 1985. Neither are for sale……..
solving the “climate change” crisis
WHAT “crisis”?
Just as with covid/vax/lockdown lies this one too will sooner or later be exposed to enough sunlight to also get “disinfected” and revealed for the farce and scam it is.
And to think da siwwy gobbermunt will win on this one too is to reveal a delusion alarger than you can imagine.
Until it doesn’t solve the “climate crisis” and we move on to the next liberty-destroying thing.
Because centralized planning and control of a nation’s economy has always worked so well in the past.
Joseph Stalin could not be reached for comment.
That’s because we’ve never tried real Communism, or so I’ve been told. We’ll get it right this time.
We need a real push to remove the power to mandate/rule/regulate from the EPA and all the other three- and four-letter government agencies.
These agencies should serve only as advisory resources to the president and Congress.
Congress should be the only body that is able to produce rules, regulations, and laws, and all should require the signature of the president.
Dismantle the EPA.
Yep. Allow the agencies to do all BS they do now BUT submit the recommendations for a rule to the relevant committee of Congress both HoR and Senate for normal hearing. If it gets out of committee then have the floor votes on a stand alone basis.
originally the agencies in question were just that, they were only allowed to interpret laws made by congress into rules, it wasn’t until later, the last 20 years or so, that congress gave up its authority to create rules to the agencies.
Biden green new deal is trillion dollar fraud. Won’t lower temps by 1 degree.
EVs are piling up at dealerships, can’t force buyers to buy something they don’t like. Even $10k tax incentive doesn’t work.
…a long list of
unintendedintended consequences.FIFY
They want us all to be serfs, eating bugs and drinking poop water, never traveling outside of 15-minute camps where you will concentrate.
The administrative State is IMO overreaching again. In particular the EPA which is already getting slapped down in Federal CT on multiple fronts. The work/leftist bureaucrats which inhabitant this agency are clearly unable to learn from those rebukes. The remaining solution is for Congress to close it down. Gonna take stones by DJT to push through the only long-term solution likely to prevent more abuse and regulatory tyranny by the administrative.State; closing down the offending agencies and firing the woke leftists who work there.
They always overreach…. moving ahead 3 feet and then being “forced” to step back 2 1/2 feet. It’s called progress. Since the Dems are all in on their plan… short of all the Dems not showing up for Congress…. it would take a selective meteor hit on The Deep State to stop.
The regulation is ripe for challenge under the major question doctrine. Reallocation large portions of the economy, including manufacturing of autos, but also reworking the power grid to accommodate the increased electrical demand. If this isn’t a “major question” just what is?
I’m not at all sure Trump even wants to do a thing like that, but it would be nice if he surprises us and does better in his 2nd term than in his 1st. I think you’re doing what I used to do, projecting onto Trump my own hopes and wishes. Somehow he makes people think he wants whatever they want.
If he does choose to do it, Vivek Ramaswamy has laid out a legal framework to use. We owe Vivek a big debt of gratitude for that.
Why, exactly, would they have ‘learned’ from these alleged ‘rebukes’?
They face no actual consequence for it. The only thing that happens is their lunatic rule gets struck down. They pay no personal penalty for blatant overreach.
Democrats are doing this across the judicial system at large. They don’t CARE if it gets struck down years in the future. Maybe it will stand, maybe it won’t, but who cares if it doesn’t?
There is NO PENALTY for them being overturned.
If it were up to me as POTUS I would fire their ass. when the unions balked I would dissolve the Fed employee union. Then when the civil service BS began I would have Congress revamp the statutes. If that failed I would reassign them to new ‘interagency’ task force located in the Arctic. Let them count snowflakes and live in Quonset huts in the Arctic circle or they could always quit. Either way they are out of DC and removed from mischief making.
Given the fact that there’s no way that the Greenies’ plans for the power grid will be able to provide enough power for a fraction of all of those EVs, it’s readily apparent that their intent isn’t to force everybody to drive EVs – the plan is to force everybody onto mass transit where their movements are easier to control. Of course, the side effects will be a practical end to such minor industries as agriculture, providing the additional benefit of a drastic lowering of the population due to starvation. We should be almost as advanced as Haiti by 2030.
This is nothing more than Chairman Xiden serving his master.
It’s time for an insurrection. A real one, not the fake Jan 6th BS.
Even Trump would have you arrested for that. We’re not that country. Maybe 100 years ago, maybe 200, not now, and it’s time we realized it and started playing very dirty within the rules, rather than clean outside of them.
That’s naive beyond belief. The progressive authoritarians are always going to be better at “playing very dirty within the rules.” It’s their path to power, and they’re very, very skilled at it.
Payoffs have consequences.
We’re a LOOOONG way from reasonable regulations to protect the environment. We’re full on in a planned economy forced through regulation, not even through legislation.
Of course we can’t rely on courts to protect citizens from this path. They’d okay the Feds measuring and taxing human farts.
If this stands it will be interesting to see what happens next. It’s obvious that anybody who owns an ICE vehicle will hang onto it if at all possible. This defiance will infuriate the leftists so I reckon they’ll come up with some scheme designed to make us give up our cars.
Like life in prison?
Like murder?
We already have a prosecutor that has threatened the SC if they allow Jan 6 political prisoners to fight their ridiculous sentences
To make them longer with even more trumped up charges
We live in a shit world
Maybe they will go door to door, backed by all-to-eager cops with their badges and guns.
After they get done screaming obscenities at your wife and children, and shooting the family dog, they will then force you a gunpoint out to your garage. They will open the hood and pour the same chemicals into your crankcase as they did to destroy a lot of used cars back in the cash for clunkers days.
I am not one generally given to hyperbole. But the way things are going in this once great country, such events would not surprise me.
They already have. it’s called ’emission standards’, and in a lot of states you are required to have your car tested, and if it doesn’t pass they refuse to renew your registration.
Has anyone been noticing the auto loan delinquency rates? They’re nearing, or have already surpassed, 30-year highs. New vehicles being gas-powered or electric powered may not matter as the looming depression is going to be so deep, no one will be able to afford either.
Auto sales are already beginning to be impacted. This idiocy will not be welcomed news to the Big Three…and yet, the UAW endorsed Biden proving once again that you cannot fix stupid.
The UAw endorsed him. I would imagine a majority of the members of the UAW did not.
And… in 2031 the EPA will mandate electrical generating plants lower their emissions to the point where the infrastructure for charging all those vehicles will be unable to keep up within a couple of years. Then there will be no way to charge those vehicles.
But how will we able to travel freely where and where we want? you may ask.
Precisely.
We need nukes. Based on clues here and there, I think Trump did go ahead with thorium reactors. But we didn’t get them, someone else did.
They don’t have to. They can’t keep up with it NOW.
They’ve already run the numbers. If we actually replaced the ICE cars that they demand with electric cars, the current number of cars on the road would require them to expand the electrical grid by a factor of 6.
They would have to build SIX TIMES as much power capacity as currently exists in the grid simply to be able to meet the demand.
Yep. The watermelon leftist climate weirdos (green on the outside/red in the center) always stutter when asked how they gonna provide electricity for all these EV they demand folks buy. These are the same folks who think food comes from the grocery.
The government can “mandate” whatever, that doesn’t mean everyone is going along with it. The car companies can build that crap, it doesn’t mean they can force people to buy it. I’m prepared to “cuban” my current cars as long as I need to because I see no good reason to go along with this bullshit.
I bet the car inspections are very easy or nonexistent in Cuba. I hear they are in some states too. I live in NY where they are serious. But if you’re willing to invest some money, so far much less than it would have cost to get a new car, you can keep and even improve that old American car.
An annual inspection here costs about $11 and basically they check the lights and your tire tread depth otherwise they don’t care. They don’t test emissions.
In the news release, the claim is that there will be a net cost benefit. The details of this study should be released as I doubt it can withstand scrutiny.
Also note that regarding particulate pollution, the ICE and EVs are at a point where the primary source of the pollution is in tire wear. EVs, being significantly heavier with resultant greater tire wear will be the source of greater – not less – particulate pollution.
Look for their next move to be regulating gas stations out of existence.
The only regulation required is the ability to tax. Say a $35/gallon tax on regular gas (premium, of course, will be even higher). It’s for “the environment”, don’t you know? Either that, or a 100% federal tax on ICE vehicles, putting each way above the cost of an EV.
When you’re an envirowarrior, there’s no limit to the pain you can inflict on your subjects “for the good of the planet”.
I’d go diesel electric. The railroad version always sounds cool, with the engine speed unchanging (though its torque is not).
It is time to stop the executive from doing things like this without Congress for one thing, and the next President needs to cancel this.
That’s for SCOTUS to end Chevron deference. I think they have a case related to it this term.
Wouldn’t it suck for Biden to get all his regulations in, then SCOTUS cancels Trump’s ability to make new offsetting regulations but the old regs stay in place?
Fingers crossed it happens this term!.
There are two major concerns:
1) We don’t have the electric production capability to power a nation dependent on EV’s. As this site and others are noting, we keep increasing demands on the grid, but have not built any new capabilities for energy production to any large extent. (We are also closing down plants which is impacting the grid and the cost of energy to the common person.)
2) How will this affect people who live in urban areas? These folks don’t have the ability to park in secluded driveways or in garages and will park in alleys and on the street. Where and how can there be a charging station for these people? Furthermore, on street and even ally parking is “first come, first serve.” How do you regulate using of the chargers and more importantly, how do you prevent the copper in the chargers from being stolen?
These are regulations made by people who look at the world through a homogeneous lens where every other person lives the same way they do with homes just like they do. They are not real world conditions.
With respect to your #2 point, I would only add that it’s not just the urban areas that will be adversely affected. People living in suburban apartment complexes will also be screwed. It’s one thing for apartment complex owners to put up a couple EV charging spots that may be used by a few renters. But, it’s quite something else for those owners to build out 100 or more spots with EV charging available. That cost is going to get passed on to the renters who are already paying the highest rent in decades…and that presumes any of it can be accommodated by the local power company…which it probably can’t.
I’m reasonably sure that if this “goal” remains in effect then 70% of new vehicle sales will be EVs. Of course the total sales of new vehicles will be down around 60% with the “Big Three” automakers closing doors on many plants.
It will be a total cluster, because new cars don’t last as long. Too complex, too finicky, very hard or impossible to repair.
If there’s to be a viable EV market, there needs to be a secondary market in batteries. If I could buy a much cheaper third party manufactured battery for my Tesla, it could be a reasonable proposition.
Where is it? It should be possible. Conceptually batteries are much simpler to make than in internal combustion engine. The only question is whether our society has become so idiotic we can no longer manage this as we used to.
You would think the batteries would be so much simpler than a combustion engine but here’s the problem. When electrical connections corrode, they stop working and it’s a real pain in the ass to try to track that down and troubleshoot it. Just because a thing has no moving parts does not necessarily make it more reliable, most of the problems I ever encounter in automobiles has to do with the electronics, not the mechanicals. The mechanical components can last a very long time if properly maintained, unfortunately the electronics tend to fail for for reasons we can’t really do much about such as humidity and temperature.
So build a robot that goes through the extremely repetitive process of checking every electrical connection, or simply rewires them all. Yes I know electrical problems are the gremlins, but with batteries it’s very repetitive, not many different things to check, just the same over and over.
Use Ohm’s Law. Monitor and periodically scan the voltage drop across connections and read and store the data over time. That will allow seeing a trend in iffy connections. So simple, I’m surprised nobody in the government has thought of it. Oh, yes … never mind.
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That’s nice. Still never going to happen as people just won’t buy them and as the woke car companies go bankrupt what will happen?
EVs are not zero emission vehicles. The amount of emissions from the production of lithium batteries along with the emissions from power plants needed to continuously recharge EVs most likely exceeds ICE emissions. These emissions should be included in the EPA’s calculations.
Government is now run by the Church of Global Warming.
Everyone will bow down to it
CLIMATE The Movie was released late yesterday and can be found on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55n-Zdv_Bwc
For every commenter here today you’ll find the tie into how, what, where and why that this one charade of government interference perpetrated and directed at a global population is the world’s biggest threat to every personal freedom one has accepted and especially here in America. My personal take away is our elected for the pure purpose of coming out on top have in our own country by the progressive’s hate of the Constitution who are working hard at placing Justices who support conceptualizing as opposed to the conservative textualizing. To re-write the premise of this document is in keeping with the elites goal of one global economy with a populated world where “one size fits all” And they have chosen this path as the one thing we universally share..Climate. The defining mechanization of creating a universal policy.
I read something a few weeks ago that indicated only wealthy people buy EVs and there is practically no market for used EVs, so the wealthy can keep what they bought or discard it. the poorer people can take a bus, etc. Or do everything from their home, It all looks like an economic train wreck with decreasing sources of tax revenue to support the government.
Destroy the U.S. economy, citizens’ prosperity and wealth, and, the environment — all while exceeding the worst outcomes of Stalin’s and Mao’s most destructive diktats and schemes. That’s quite the trifecta of accomplishments, for the vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks.
Screw the automakers. I’ve seen many of their leaders agree with the big climate change lie and tell us electric is the way to go.
If they don’t want to fight the dem fascists they deserve the backstabbing they’ll get when push comes to shove.
I still remember mary barra embracing joe and his crap.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/biden-gm-uaw-strike-00116652
General Motors CEO Mary Barra has visited the White House eight times since Joe Biden became president. She’s led the auto industry in embracing his electric vehicle agenda. The president has spent years cultivating a tight relationship with her.
There are a lot of good used cars. We’ll be like Cuba, driving 20 year old cars and the EV’s will just rot on the lot and the auto industry will continue to decline. The Chinese will prosper.
Thank you overlords for your wisdom.
We will keep our twelve- and seventeen-year-old cars for a while. With all the craziness in the auto industry the last decade or two, we have every reason to do so.
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Somehow, they always land on the most intrusive approach to get to their alleged goal. Then, don’t so much mind when the intervention doesn’t help the goal; even leave it in place.
It’s like the intrusion is the point; the “unintended consequences” aren’t so “unintended.”
Unintended? Surely you jest. Getting rid of private transportation is the goal, not merely the effect. Government functionaries will still have cars, naturally, as they are very special people. Heck. the UK has proposals out about shutting down all their commercial airports to general passenger traffic. Only government and private passenger traffic would be allowed.
Why else are you suddenly seeing propaganda about bicycle commuting? Turning the US into 1970 China isn’t my idea of prosperity. This also makes sure everyone stays in their zone.