{"id":1956,"date":"2022-01-03T20:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2022-01-03T20:15:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:15:31","slug":"epa-finalizes-tougher-new-fuel-economy-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"EPA finalizes tougher new fuel economy rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> close <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/931\/524\/iStock-Petrol-pump.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"'The Five' mock Democrats' gas prices tweet praising Biden\" data-v-13907676> Video <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-13907676>&#8216;The Five&#8217; mock Democrats&#8217; gas prices tweet praising Biden<\/h4>\n<p data-v-13907676>&#8216;The Five&#8217; panel reacts to the DCCC thanking President Biden for 2-cent drop in gas prices<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The EPA has finalized new fuel economy rules for the years 2023 to 2026 that set tougher standards than those established during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/640\/320\/iStock-Petrol-pump.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"New rules will require automakers to meet a 40 mpg fleetwide average by 2026.\"> <\/p>\n<p>\n      New rules will require automakers to meet a 40 mpg fleetwide average by 2026.\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The new target raises the fleet average fuel economy requirement by 25% from 32 mpg to 40 mpg, according to Reuters. President Biden had previously proposed a 38 mpg requirement in August and has encouraged automakers to transition their lineups to 50% electric vehicles by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>John Bozzella, president and CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents most consumer automakers, called the plan &#8220;aggressive&#8221; and said meeting the standards &#8220;will undoubtedly require enactment of supportive governmental policies \u2013 including consumer incentives, substantial infrastructure growth, fleet requirements, and support for U.S. manufacturing and supply chain development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EPA announcement comes just a day after it became clear that President Biden&#8217;s Build Back Better plan, which included a new maximum federal tax credit for electric vehicle purchases of $12,500, was unlikely to pass in its current form.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/p>\n<p>The new rules represent a 28.3% reduction in emissions during the period covered and will require an increase in the market share of plug-in vehicles from a projected 7% in 2023 to 17% in 2026, according to the EPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>close Video &#8216;The Five&#8217; mock Democrats&#8217; gas prices tweet praising Biden &#8216;The Five&#8217; panel reacts to the DCCC thanking President Biden for 2-cent drop in gas prices The EPA has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}