The Coalition for Sustainable Automotive Regulation, a lobbying group that represents numerous major automakers, has withdrawn its emissions regulations lawsuit involving the federal government and the state of California.
The coalition became involved in a legal battle with the Trump Administration and the state of California after Trump revoked a waiver that allowed California to set its own fuel economy/emissions regulations. California and 22 other states challenged the Trump Administration’s decision, with the Coalition for Sustainable Automotive Regulation also joining the fight in an effort to enact one single fuel economy standard nationwide.
In a statement released this week, the coalition said it was on board with the fuel economy goals that the Biden Administration has outlined so far and that it plans to work with the current admin to enact sustainable, business-friendly fuel economy and emissions regulations in the United States in the immediate future.
“We are aligned with the Biden Administration’s goals to achieve year-over-year improvements in fuel economy standards that provide meaningful climate and national energy security benefits, reduce GHG emissions and promote advanced technologies,” the coalition said. “In a gesture of good faith and to find a constructive path forward, the CSAR has decided to withdraw from this lawsuit in order to unify the auto industry behind a single national program, with ambitious, achievable standards.”
Mary Barra in 2018
The Coalition for Sustainable Automotive Regulation includes several major automakers, such as Hyundai, Toyota, Stellantis, Mazda and Subaru. General Motors had previously expressed support for the Trump Administration’s decision to revoke California’s ability to set its own fuel economy standards, but it reversed course in November. In a statement, GM CEO Mary Barra said the company was “immediately withdrawing from the pre-emption litigation and inviting other automakers to join us.”
The Trump Administration loosened fuel economy regulations, enacting new rules that require automaker’s to meet 1.5 percent annual increases in vehicle fuel efficiency through to 2026. The Obama Administration policies that Trump overruled would have required automakers to meet 5 percent annual fuel economy increases.
By comparison, the new Californian fuel economy standards will require automakers to meet 3.7 percent annual fleetwide fuel economy increases.
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So basically this coalition is going to support whatever the current administration wants to do. Its called the brownnoser strategy.
Wrong. Dinasours like the Trump party (note I didn’t call him a republican or a conservative) need to get with the times and encourage efficiency, not reject it.
Well first it is wrong to call him a conservative. He is a New Yorker liberal with some good fiscal policies. Besides conservatives don’t really have any beliefs these days since they have no backbone.
With that said speaking of efficiency. I suggest you fully study the battery car eco-system. You will have to start from energy sources, the power plants, the grid, and end user. Time is a variable that must be considered also.
EVs to me are like smart “watches” which I despise. As what is the point of a watch that I will have to charge every other day! Sure they are good as a gimmick when I want to go for a run. When I can get a real mechanical watch that can last for decades assuming proper maintenance. Same with EVs that will spend a good amount of their time plugged in.
The funny thing is that people are accepting these battery cars that can’t beat a basic Toyota corrola in range. Yes yes the technology can get better but it will hit its limits as we hit the transistor limit on printer circuit boards. Image an EV with 1000 miles of range but it takes forever to charge it to that point safely and the battery pack is huge. No thanks! I’ll take the technology in Hyperion supercar which gets 1000 miles of range and takes minutes to pump up.
In summary don’t knock people who don’t want to accept what is thrown at them. The old adage is that “only fools rush in.” God gave each of us a brain for free will so it is okay to think on our own. Don’t allow yourself to be lectured by paid off people.
EVs are slow golf carts with batteries that explode and pollute the environment to make and recharge. The grid is 100x dirtier then a catalytic converter and we will have power outages like california if we don’t stop EVs in their tracks.
Militias would do us all a favor if they blew up charging stations or at least roll coal on every ev to send a message.
Our country can’t take another 8 years of biden/obama. Too bad the capitol patriots didn’t break into GM and show mary we the people won’t let her take our gas cars away.
You don’t deal with change very well, do you. Next 10 years is gonna be tough for you then.
The next 2 years are going to be “tough” for all. While you’re all masking up you’d better Buckle up as well. The most powerful person in the “free” world just eliminated tens of thousands of high paying jobs with a pen & informed us that there will be enough “vaccine” by the end of summer to vaccinate “300 Americans”. And he said it TWICE in two sentences. 300!!! Go check it out on WH.gov. Yep y’all elected a winner!!! 300 people!!! Deal with it.
Conspiracy theory much. Back to the basement for you sir.
EV’s are FAR from slow. Tesla demonstrated how to make an EV that people wanted, even when the fit and finish is inconsistent. You are right about the power grid. Between the Dems killing off coal and nuclear power, the grid is going to be a disaster. They’ll quietly expand natural gas power plants, which will really hurt cold weather states where families have slowly switched to natural gas. Dems don’t care though. It’s about maintaining an image of caring about the working class, not *actually* caring about the working class. Solar and wind are woefully inadequate and particularly vulnerable to weather events. Just wait until a tornado wipes out a solar panel project and the area has brownouts for months amd China leverages their market dominance to make us pay whatever they want. Unless the US starts building 4th gen nuclear plants and battery technology increases power density by a factor of 4, widescale EV adoption is a pipe dream.
Wrong. The Democrats are commited to expand nuclear energy. Google real new items like at Forbes and educate yourself .
Forbes?!!!? Really??? The once RESPECTED financial journal??? After calling out companies who attempt to hire former Trump Administration to be black listed??? A fascist media in the USA!!! What’s next the gulags??? Gas chambers???
Wrong. Every nuclear power plant closure was because of dems. They hate nuclear. They only want wind and solar. Might as well power the USA with pixie dust and fairy dreams. Thats how stupid the democrat mindset is.
Read up on news from 2021 not 1971.
I keep thinking about the flashlight that is eating 12 batteries at a time.
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It’s a small price to pay to get rid of the Trump party, and restore democracy.
we don’t have a democracy we have a representative republic. doesn’t surprise me that a democrat doesn’t know that though maybe you should read some of the stuff from 1776 first then read some more modern news then maybe you’ll understand why people believe and fought for freedom which you don’t advocate for nor understand. Most people who align for the trump party as you call it are patriotic nationalists not globalists. How does one think it is bad to be for freedom and your own country?
You’re uninfomed bud. Restore democracy? Your argument has no leg to stand on.
You know what’s going to happen once EV’s become mainstream and take over gas and diesel?? We are just switching from burning one fuel to another yes there are solar panels and giant wind fans but no body wants those in there back yard. So in reality what happens when we blow the electric grid? Trump was right we do not need to support other countries who messed up focus on America!
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ok right let’s discourage efficiency in products. That’s why the Japanese and the Germans were able to rise from their flattened economies from WWII and lead the world in efficient products and workmanship today.
This is of course, your biased position. I wouldn’t be caught dead with an overpriced anemic Euro or Japanese, let alone Chinese car. You apparently haven’t visited a service drive on those cars you mentioned.
I like the idea of the a unified fuel economy standard. However I think that we should be regulating emissions not fuel economy, if a company can put a catalyst in the exhaust that converts all carbon-dioxide into solid carbon and capture it for proper disposal. stopping all carbon from going into the air. Then I think that they should be able to, even if it gets 12mpg.
Your the reason we had Janury 6. You want to put catalytic converters and get 12 mpg but there is no such thing as global warming. We need gas not golf carts to take biden to whole foods.
There is a such thing as Global warming. My point was just that we government should be addressing the problem not mandating a solution. I would never stand with those traitorous.
Yes, they should stop wealthy private jet owners from polluting our air.
First of all “Global warming” should be changed to Global climate change…also while the so so evil Trump was in office cars got cleaner, Tesla sold more, a gas engine of today runs smoother, cleaner, and more efficient then ever before even five or ten years ago. I am not against EV cars I just want to have options when I purchase a car not be told “if you buy a new you must by an EV” and old cars can remain on the roads but not be sold?? So your telling me if I have a 15 or 30 year old SUV I can’t sell it?? If that’s the case in the future then count me out because I want my son and I to grow up in an America with choices for AMERICANS!
So under Biden we will allow more of the worlds poorest to invade the US so they can run down to the showrooms and buy new Electric vehicles before they herd 8 families into a soon to be destroyed single family residence.
The government regulating fuel economy is non-sensical. It kills innovation and keeps entrepreneurial start-ups from entering the market. GM, Ford and Chrysler love keeping out competition. The premise is anti-free market, job-killing and counter to the American cause-liberty and freedom. Allowing different standards only increases costs to the consumer.
I had not thought of it that way but you are right. The government should just use a carbon tax so that big business is playing on the same field as the small companies. And this solution will also stop climate-change.
Carbon tax the liberals who open their mouth and let out all that communist hot air.
It’s better to have the libs around otherwise USA will turn into a dictatorship or a cheap democracy like Putin runs.
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Yes, by 10,000 executive orders to kill 10,000 jobs on day one. Nice try there.
Your comment makes no sense. Keeping the govt out means no carbon tax. And they should call it a carbon-dioxide tax, not carbon tax, but I digress. Secondly, Gorebal warming and climate change is a made up cause to institute communist-globalist power and crush freedom and liberty.
Please leave the politics out of this when it comes to what the car companies are doing.
Now that they are getting cost down, ranges longer and working out the other barriers automakers are finding they can make cars cheaper and more profitable with electric power drives.
Prices of these parts will continue to get cheaper. No emissions development to deal with, Less parts to deal with The driveline will share much the same parts in just needed configurations.
As it is now the cost of cars just keeps climbing as it cost more and more to meet regulations. Those regulations will be gone.
At the end of the day they may say they are saving trees and carbon but the truth is they will make cars at lower cost all the way around and profits will be much easier to come by.
This is why the tech industry is doing so well. Once development cost are covered it becomes nearly pure profits.
These choices are due to making money not politics anymore.
do you really think there is going to be big profits in the crowded EV space?
Yes to answer you seriously.
The development cost due to emissions alone is crippling. You remove it and create vehicle built with only a combination of a handful of electric motors with the same kind of battery with only size being different will also. It cost greatly.
The same thing that has happened in the electronic industry will happen. As initial cost are covered the price of the products will decline. Now yes we will see new tech and it will remain expensive till it’s development cost are covered and then it will be the cheaper tech.
Just look at TV’s. The big screens were big cost new. Now they are cheap. Today the LED screens are expensive but they will be replaced and they will be $400.
Lap tops? My MacBook Pro is the same price but has 8 core processors and 1 terabyte. All for the price of what a year ago would have only gotten me 6 cores and 500 GB.
We will see more stable pricing and the automakers or at least the better tech automakers will see more profits.
The added cost to meet mpg and emissions is so underestimated by enthusiast. Just look at the number of different engines and vehicles and future up the cost of development of each combination. It is in the multiple billions.
what about competition? those benefits apply to all manufacturers and they will compete against eachother on price. that will put pressure on pricing power and operating margins. and china will undoubtedly undercut everyone.
More liberal regulations aren’t gonna solve problems caused by liberal regulations. We gotta get the capitol patriots into the GM building and get mary OUT.
Lock them up.
I am far from liberal but I am educated enough to know what the cost are and reducing them is the only way the auto industry survives.
You are correct however if there were no regulations then there would be no need to reduce the costs government interference is the problem
Companies are doing what they do as a direct result of politics. The problem is that there is no amount of clean enough for a tree hugger. We need a 50 state standard for emissions and that is all. It is long past time to allow the consumer to buy what they want, not Insurance companies and tree hugger telling the buyer what they can have. If emissions are the true goal, why do you support millions of foreign nationals coming into this country to pollute the air? It is always about the money..,. Period!!!
Keep the politics out? What do you think this article is about? Government regulations. Secondly, all you EV fans think electric cars are emissions free? Ask any engineer, electric cars are a 3-phase process with only about 8% efficiency vs 2-phase ICE cars at about 22% taking in account energy consumption.
How are you creating all that electrical energy (coal/oil/natural gas) and where are those emissions going? Not to the moon.
How much is cleaner air contributing to “climate change” Einstein’s??? Isn’t it logical that “cleaner air” let’s in MORE of the suns radiant heat??? “Science” is starting to inquire about the effect. Google it Global warming fear mongers.
Electric motors pollute too. It’s called ozone. What about EMI on the human body? How come this never gets discussed?
All you hear is all the wonders of EV’s.
Liberals never stop causing problems. Gas? switch to golf carts. EMI on human body? put up lead shields. Too heavy? Add more batteries. Too expensive? Dole out more welfare. Debt? Tax white people. It never stops but they always have a “solution”.
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This has never been about how stringent the standards have been. It’s about having a single unified standard. From the article “in order to unify the auto industry behind a single national program, with ambitious, achievable standards.” It’s the same goal today as it was a couple of years ago. Just a shift in strategy on how to get there.
Breaking “News”: John Kerry just got off his Lear Jet for a few minutes to re-fuel with fossil fuel & announced “even if we were to eliminate all carbon emissions WE still won’t solve the problem”. That means, for you indoctrinated globalists, that “the problem” can’t be solved.
This issue of “global warming” or whatever you want to call it , is not about “taking your freedoms away”, but rather it is about not letting the US turn into a China, Russia, India, global polluter and have their air quality problems. Those countries without meaningful pollution standards have smog like we did back in the 1920’s to 1980’s. We are smart enough to know what air is breathable and what causes illness, and how to avoid it and set the new standard.
It’s actually both just a question of which is more important to you. Solving the problem of no smog is desirable but government will inevitably put in more regulation than necessary and you’ll lose freedom, over time more and more freedom is eroded until it’s gone completely that’s the problem.
Next thing you know and the Government will be regulating what type, size, and how much water my Toilet uses! Give them an inch and they take a yard just look at how hard it is to own a firearm now…not only that but since the 1970’s we have been told cleaner air and gas prices have risen the auto makers have made cleaner running vehicles. But I think just like with ICE EV’s are not going to happen and take over over night people need time to adjust to new technology, pay off their car they have now, have their home setup to charge an EV, and where I live there are not nearly enough charging stations yet. So I am all for the EV revolution but it’s going to take time even GM has said by 2035 they want be carbon free well that’s still 15 years away…also I don’t see the Japanese car markers jumping on the EV ship yet and usually they are ahead of the curve makes one wonder.
Walter Einstein: When GM goes ALL EV under Gov pressure it takes away OUR “freedom” of choice. When USA re-joins “Paris Agreement” that allows China & India to pollute the world under the label of “Developing” (WTF?!!!?) countries & requires USA to rigorous economy killing carbon regulations what do you think is really going on sir??? An 8th grader can see the POWER shift away from the USA to CHINA and others. C’mon man, where did the critical thinking skills go!!!
Looks like the great state of Tennessee has joined in with this announcement from the governor:
Tennessee funds statewide electric vehicle fast charging network
Governor Bill Lee (R-TN) said:
“This investment in electric vehicle charging infrastructure is a monumental step forward, and I’m proud that Tennessee is leading in this important effort.
With TVA’s partnership, we will be able to continue our work to protect our environment and improve our transportation infrastructure.”
Oh boy, there go our freedoms again.
Yeah the government confiscating my money to use it for something I don’t want sounds like erosion of freedom to me. Maybe if they did it with private donated funds
Privately donated funds buy government job positions.
Just like the Corn/Ethanol lobby, whatever you are using will be mandated to change so the “electrified”
enlightened will win all the Beans. As always, follow the money.
Meanwhile, Americans have clean air but no jobs unless you work in a government capacity. Problem is that eventually there is no income to tax and no more government jobs. Rocket Science!!
The Japanese tend to think more with logic and they know this is all political that’s why they’re not adapting however they may have to as well if everyone continues to be brainwashed or they’ll be pushed out of the market I’ve recently heard Toyota may finally be heading in the ev direction unfortunately
There is no fear of government over-reach, because in our system we will alternate between political ideas, and no one government or party will be in time after time. The people will decide what and how much regulation will apply. Predicting some sort of Animal Farm state over EV’s is a bit extreme. As long as American companies keep on knocking on the door of the Chinese/ India / et al manufacturers to build something cheaper, there will be more pollutants from those countries because we give them the business.
You cannot alternate between political ideas if one political party owns free speech.
Or the people will have the illusion of deciding, just look at our history and you tell me if we are more free today than when the country was founded nothing extreme about it
We where more free when the country was founded…these days we are treated like well you can have some freedom but not to much or else. Look at it this way people are actually fooled into thinking that they own the property that their house sits on…NO the town or city owns land you are paying taxes and being told what you can and cannot put up on your land if it was truly love and owned by the home owner then you would be able to do what you damn well please with your property and not pay taxes or at least lower taxes. Sometime before the Great Depression in this country your land truly was your own you owned it not some town or city. To me that is True Freedom not a false pretense which is how we live today…the bank owns your car, your house, even some appliances in your home and if you can no longer pay your mortgage or taxes your in trouble. False freedom.
Now that’s the real woke hopefully more people will wake up before we all become 100 percent slaves instead of the 35 percent we are now