President Joe Biden wants to make 50 percent of all new cars sold in the US to be electric by 2030, pushing long-term aggressive policies to cut on vehicle emissions that are contributing to the heating of the planet worldwide.
Biden signed an executive order on the South Lawn of the White House that includes a schedule for developing new emissions standards through at least 2030 for light-duty vehicles and as early as 2027 for larger vehicles in collaboration with the biggest U.S. automakers.
Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis said they have a “shared aspiration” for 40-50% of sales to be concentrated on electric vehicles, battery-electric, fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles by 2030.
US automotive Union United Auto Workers, which Biden wants to involve in his strategy, said they are supportive of the move.
European and Japanese carmakers BMW, Honda, Volkswagen and Volvo also backed the goal.
“The biggest thing that’s happening here is there’s a realization, on the part of both labor and business now, that this is the future. We can’t sit by,” Biden told reporters at the White House, before driving off with his hybrid Jeep to make a short circuit.
While ambitious, Biden’s Goals do not go as far as other goals already in motion elsewhere. The state of California, for example, requires that by 2035 all new cars sold in its market should be zero-emission vehicles.
Germany said it wants to be carbon neutral by 2040, while the EU set in motion proposals seeking to end new petrol and diesel vehicles 2035.
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