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submitted 7 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/politics@lemmy.world

Instead of essentially requiring automakers to rapidly ramp up sales of electric vehicles over the next few years, the administration would give car manufacturers more time, with a sharp increase in sales not required until after 2030

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Ali Zaidi, Mr. Biden’s senior climate adviser, declined to discuss the details of the final regulation. But he said in an interview that Mr. Biden’s climate policies, combined with record federal investment in renewable energy, would still help to reach the president’s goal of cutting the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago

That's fine. I'm sure the climate can wait for car manufacturers to be ready.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

Remember when they talked about doing it 25 years ago and it was ‘by 2025’? Kick the can seems to still be our legislators’ favorite game.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

If Gore was president in 2000, the above might have been true.

GOP fuckery in Florida and a GOP supreme court made sure it wasent.

[-] LocoOhNo@lemmus.org 11 points 7 months ago

They know they'll be dead from old age before it affects them. Plus, the dirty money checks keep clearing, so they have no incentive.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

If we had today’s battery technology 25 years ago and anything close to the charging infrastructure we have today (which is still grossly inadequate) The conversation might be different.  But, yes, we really should’ve gotten started a lot earlier.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

It’s already too late.

[-] Uvine_Umbra@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Good, now move those investments into battery technology, push for Right to Repair on evs (especially batteries), & encourage level 1 & 2 infrastructure so people in multifamily buildings can charge at their places if not here & there at their work or at stores, since most building owners may actually consider it then.

That would do so much more to get EVs on the road.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Democrats' shoulder demons are like "NO! Not timid enough!"

Democrats' shoulder angels drank themselves to death long ago.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In a concession to automakers and labor unions, the Biden administration intends to relax elements of one of its most ambitious strategies to combat climate change, limits on tailpipe emissions that are designed to get Americans to switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles, according to three people familiar with the plan.

Sensing an opening, former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican front-runner, has seized on electric cars, falsely warning the public that they “don’t work” and telling autoworkers that Mr. Biden’s policies are “lunacy” that he would extinguish on “the first day” of his return to the White House.

But he said in an interview that Mr. Biden’s climate policies, combined with record federal investment in renewable energy, would still help to reach the president’s goal of cutting the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

Still, experts say it’s uncertain whether Mr. Biden can meet his twin goals of cutting the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and eliminating them by 2050, a target that scientists say all nations must achieve to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

In public comments it filed regarding the proposed rule, the United Auto Workers pressed the Biden administration to relax the compliance timeline so that it “increases stringency more gradually, and occurs over a greater period of time.” Union leaders repeated that request in discussions with senior White House officials, including Mr. Zaidi, over the past six months.

Last fall, when the union went on strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, in part over fears about the industry’s transition to electric vehicles, Mr. Biden sought to assuage their concerns and became the first president to stand with workers on the picket line.


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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh boy, the car companies have more time to churn out more boring electric CUVs with gimmicky features and data harvesting.

Maybe electric car sales are slow because they’re too expensive and also kinda suck.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 0 points 7 months ago

Bury the news you don't want people to see on a Friday night/Saturday morning.

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