Trump Administration Backs Down: Will Approve Modest Annual Mileage Increases

The Detroit Bureau

The White House is reversing itself on federal fuel economy standards, a draft resolution now calling for mileage to rise 1.5% annually through 2029 after originally scheduled to freeze at 2020 levels.

Companies that had wanted a midterm review indicated the freeze went too far. Other manufacturers indicated they didn’t expect to adjust their product plans no matter what the administration did.

Should Trump be defeated in November 2020, the expectation has been that a victorious Democrat would likely tighten mileage rules once again. Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor running for the Democratic nomination is calling for the replacement of all gas and diesel-powered vehicles with EVs by 2035.

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