Vehicles on Highway 101 in San Francisco, California on March 29, 2022. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images, reversing a rollback by former President Trump.The new standards will increase fuel efficiency requirements by 8% annually for model years 2024 and 2025 and 10% annually for model year 2026, according to the new rules.
"The new standards will make vehicle miles per gallon more efficient, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce transportation emissions," the NHTSA said in a statement.The Trump administration in March 2020 rolled back Obama-era fuel economy standards to require 1.5% annual increases in efficiency through 2026,December announced
more stringent pollution standards for cars and light trucks in an attempt to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles. The EPA's stricter vehicle emissions requirements are parallel to the NHTSA rules, but they don't exactly match. Under its vehicle emissions rule, the EPA estimates model year 2026 vehicles would see an average of 40 mpg.from Axios' Andrew Freedman: The new standards won't go quite as far as those put in place under the Obama administration, which adjusted for the type of cars that people bought.
"Indeed, technological advancements, energy savings and consumer benefits justify even stronger standards.""The Biden administration’s weak gas mileage standards do little to alleviate consumers’ pain at the pump, since they don’t push GM and Toyota to shift from hawking gas guzzlers that fill the coffers of their golfing buddies at Exxon," Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Safe Climate Transport Campaign, said in a statement.
Less safe cars…