A group representing major automakers urged the Biden administration to make significant changes to three proposed vehicle rules, warning they could force car companies to hastily stop building some gas-powered vehicles.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation warned the proposed rules “could prematurely force abandonment of many internal combustion engine vehicles and their associated revenue, reducing the availability of capital necessary for automakers to fund the EV transition.”
Referring to “overlapping, duplicative and sometimes conflicting objectives” in the rules, Alliance CEO John Bozzella also said that the Energy Department’s proposed revision of EV compliance value calculations for NHTSA’s CAFE program would devalue EV fuel economy by 72%.
