#cafe-standards

#cafe-standards

They were horrible, Trump said at the White House. What [the standards] were doing to the cost and actually making the car much worse. But these policies forced automakers to build cars using expensive technologies that drove up costs and prices and made the car much worse. The Biden-issued standards, ABC News reported, mandated an increase in fuel efficiency each year between 2027 and 2031, which would have brought the average vehicle up to 50.4 miles per gallon.

The recent changes to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have rendered them effectively powerless, slashing penalties for non-compliance down to $0.