Ford, Honda, BMW and Volkswagen have reached an agreement with the California Air Resources Board to implement tougher fleet wide fuel economy standards by 2026, going against the Trump administration’s plan to freeze the regulations.
The deal aims to increase the average fuel economy of automakers’ new vehicle fleets to 36 mpg by 2025. The Trump administration previously indicated that it would aim for a fleet wide average of 30 mpg by 2025, a goal that it sees as more realistic for automakers and also good for business, requiring less investment.
This new deal between California and the four automakers will only come into effect if the Trump administration follows through on its plan to re-write the current, Obama-era fuel economy roadmap.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he expects more automakers apart from Honda, Ford, BMW and VW to sign on in the next little while as well.
Newsom also laid praise upon the four companies for signing onto the deal, saying they exercised “significant leadership” and that they deserve “enormous credit,” for doing so.
The automakers released a joint statement after signing the deal, saying they are looking for a 50-state fuel economy agreement and want to avoid having two sets of regulations for California and the rest of the country. “A 50-state solution has always been our preferred path forward and we understand that any deal involves compromise,” the statement said.
General Motors is not taking a stance on the matter just yet, however, and says it is looking forward to working with the federal government and the state of California to hash out a permanent, 50-state solution.
“We are driving toward a future of zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion,” GM said. “As we have stated, the pathway includes continuously improving fuel economy and our commitment to an all-electric future. Our focus remains on working with all parties on a solution that would involve a 50-state solution and a national electric vehicle program,” said GM spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan said.
For now, more uncertainty seems to be on the horizon for the automakers, with future fuel economy regulations set to hang in the midst amid court proceedings and political hand-wringing between Washington D.C. and California.
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Although a 50-state MPG and emissions level standard have been established, it is for the brand’s marketing value to offer vehicles with even lower MPG ratings. So more EV and hybrid vehicles will be the means to reach this goal and become better. The POTUS wants to protect oil-related businesses as his campaign sponsors, but it is time enough to stop their 120-year dominance, and return the U.S. to breathe clean air again.
If you disagree with the statement from Ramirez then you must enjoy sucking on a tailpipe…
unless you are using hydro or nuke generated electricty you are just moving the emissions from your tail pipe to someone else area where the power generation takes place.
This has been thoroughly debunked by multiple independent studies who disclose their funding sources…From cradle to grave, EVs are cleaner even if using coal fueled generated electricity…Even better is the fact that new solar panels along with other green projects come online every single day making the global grid cleaner…
California wants to make cars insanely expensive for the whole country.
yeah, that’s their goal.
I’m independently divided between: “STOCK-HOLDERS & THE AUTO MARKET”// “GREEDY COMPANY ELIT’S & THE OIL VS ELECTRIC FOLKS”!!?
Whiners want dead grand children.
Interesting, I have not had a problem breathing the air in America my entire 4+ decades on the planet. In fact I’d argue our air is cleaner now than at any time in the last 50 years.
so the choice is to follow trump or california(the fifth largest economy in the world) and the other states that follow california’s lead(Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington)?
hmmmm that’s a tough one.
Crappyfornia can GTH, along with it’s false economy..
Amen brutha, you’ll find these doofuses standing in line to take selfies in front of the lamo Facebook sign in Menlo Park. Look, Ma it’s Mecca. I made it! Silicon Valley with Marky at the helm leading the lemmings off a cliff if you prefer to avoid the Titanic analogy.
I live in this craphole, dude and I can tell you we’re in serious trouble. Heed my word. California Soul is but a memory. They covered the bottom with spikes just to be sure.
Ground Zero for mindless soullessness drenched in limitless greed and hypocrisy
Ground Zero for **infinite** mindless soullessness drenched in limitless greed and hypocrisy
[My way of “clean air”: Keep the heat-range of every-spark plug & diesel generated ignition 2 Factory specification’s & new 12 month ignition system’s & replace filters every 12 month’s or every 3k miles! depending where U R; replace your mufflers &/or cat. converters every 5 years or so!
California should be more concerned about the many street people that are living on the streets in tents or nothing taking dumps on the sidewalks.
The rat population is taking off and the start of typhus, TB and worst are just starting.
The state and city officials think it is the lack of housing but it is really mental health issues, as long as they are not seen as a harm to them selves or others they can just park anywhere on the streets of many CA cities.
Yet they make it a near felony if you car fails to meet one small detail. You can pass the pipe sniffer meeting the legal levels but if you fail to have the CARB number on your header you have committed a crime
No one wants bad air but this is a deal that needs common sense and everyone working as one. Right now you have people passing laws on cars that could not check their own oil.
Crowds of high caste immigrants imported to work in Silicon Valley show up at city council meetings carrying signs vehemently protesting plans to build homeless shelters in “their” neighborhoods. No place is acceptable. Not in my backyard! There’s no compassion. They don’t see it as tragic or even ironic that the homeless are sons and daughters of the people who built their newly adopted cities and were raised in the very houses they’re now fiercely protecting. Though elitism knows no skin color or religion, it is obvious that caste systems don’t blend well at all with baseball and hot dogs.
What’s evident in troubled California: the end product of liberal diversity campaigns is systematic replacement of existing populations with foreign ones – the net result being the very antithesis of diversity. Many once solidly mixed middle class Silicon Valley cities have been overtaken by imported tech workers, the Gods of Silicon Valley insisting the reason being a lack of homegrown talent. The truth is they can pay foreigners less which amounts to massive profits when you multiply the cost savings times thousands of imported workers. New homebuilding has by no means kept up with the influx which has driven housing costs and traffic congestion beyond the rational.
Mental illness is rife among the homeless, but if you consider the sea change these people have been forced to endure through massive societal restructuring, it is apparent that many are mentally ill as a direct result of it. Good people finding themselves no longer able to feed their families due to wholesale societal reengineering by elite puppeteers and complete elimination of traditional employment options. The newcomers don’t even feign concern for the displaced. California’s is a brutally one-sided economy that’s spawned countless billionaires and multi–millionaires and forced many, many more to the streets, drug addiction and babbling insanity. Immense, indecent concentrations of wealth in stark relief to a sh!t stained background of skyrocketing poverty – trademark of the left. Nothing puts things more in perspective than observing who’ll crack their window and hand a few dollars to the homeless guy standing at the freeway offramp in the hot sun. Among endless rows of arrogant newly minted social justice warriors piloting exotic luxury flagships, count on it being the maligned Christian somebody in a junker who’s lived here their whole life rolling down a manual crank window to lend a hand. They know they could be next. Humility, charity and sanity do not exist within the genetically engineered counterculture of the left. Blue California is a disaster.
As a service to the community, the exhaust from my old Buick the state wants to buy back could be used to fumigate. We can use old cars to gas the rodents before Bubonic plague takes hold in the local encampments!
I’ll give you 2 thumbs up if I could for that post
Trump should protest by closing all his properties and golf courses in California…