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EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won’t stop the shift to electric vehicles, but will make it harder, slower and more expensive

  • Written by Alan Jenn, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won’t stop the shift to electric vehicles, but will make it harder, slower and more expensiveCustomers have embraced electric vehicles; policy changes may decrease that interest but will not eliminate it.Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The U.S. government is in full retreat from its efforts to make vehicles more fuel-efficient, which it has been waging, along with state governments, since the 1970s.

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