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Gas War: U.S. House Suggests Ending California Emissions Authority, White House Says Nope

The Truth About Cars

Furthermore, the EPA cannot legally issue a formal ban on combustion vehicles. However, the legal hurdles confronted by the Trump administration were vast and Biden undid any headway it had made by subsequent executive order. percent of U.S. vehicles sold in 2022 that were EVs.

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NHTSA proposes 58 mpg usual for current automobiles by means of 2032

Baua Electric

WASHINGTON — 3 months later the EPA proposed its strictest-ever limits on tailpipe air pollution, NHTSA has defined gas financial system requirements for current light-duty automobiles and vehicles that will require a mean fleet gas financial system of 58 mpg by means of the 2032 mannequin yr.

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Green Car Congress

In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California. Earlier post.). —Andrew Wheeler.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

Cars That Think

Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. Steve” Broady was convicted as the mastermind of the 55th Street “wiretap nest,” the largest illegal wiretapping operation ever to come to light in the United States. The two firms, Bristol-Myers and.

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More states follow California’s clean car standards

Green Cars News

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to grant California’s request to carry out its own clean car standards not only clears the way for the Schwarzenegger-led state to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions, but it is likely to effect at least 13 additional states too.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

I could drive a Class 8 truck over a light-duty charger, and it will activate one pad of that truck and still charge. We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits.