Reports say Biden will likely relax his EV mandate. It won’t slow down EV growth.
The Biden Administration may loosen up regulations mandating most car sales in the U.S. be EVs by 2032. But the ultimate arbiter will be car buyers, and they seem likely to keep going electric.
When the U.S. EPA proposed strict, new emissions regulations last year, it essentially told the auto industry that it meant two-thirds of all EVs sold in the U.S. would need to be zero-emission.
But under pressure from American car dealers, some manufacturers, and a legion of Republicans, President Biden appears set to slow down the adoption of hard tar…
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