GM, in partnership with several other automakers, is backing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a legal battle between the regulatory body and a handful of U.S. states and ethanol proponents over stricter emissions standards.
According to a recent report from Reuters, The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents nearly all major automakers, is backing new, more stringent EPA emissions rules in the face of legal challenges presented by 16 U.S. states. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a challenge to the new rules alongside backing from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah. Meanwhile, Arizona filed a separate challenge to the new EPA rules.
Joining the states is the American Fuel And Petrochemical Manufacturers group and a handful of corn and soybean growers associations. According to these groups, the new rules “effectively mandate the production and sale of electric cars rather than cars powered by internal combustion engines.”
The new EPA rules reverse a Trump-era rollback on automotive tailpipe emissions and require a 28.3 percent reduction in vehicle emissions through the 2026 calendar year. The goal of the new rules is to hasten the adoption of electric vehicles in the U.S. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is expected to release finalized Corporate Average Fuel Economy revisions on Friday, recently confirming substantial increases in fines for automakers that do not meet the standards.
According to The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents a collection of automakers that includes GM, Volkswagen, Toyota, Hyundai, and Stellantis, among others, the new EPA rules “will challenge the industry” but provide “critically important flexibilities” to meet the stated goals. Additionally, the automaker group added that it would like to secure “critical regulatory provisions” that support electric vehicle technology.
GM is aiming to eliminate tailpipe emissions from its light duty vehicle line by 2035, with the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2040. The automaker will launch 30 new EV models globally by 2025.
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GM is stuck up Bidens ass ! Bara wants that Govt $ . Just keep following this illegitimate corrupt administration and GM will be go bankrupt again.
Mighty woke of little gm!
Gurt you are woke.
wokers are in denial I suppose you have no idea who the “big guy” is either.
Go storm the capital again. But if you get caught, don’t expect any help from me.
Why would anyone expect anything from you? You’re a troll on an automotive website that likes to act like someone you’re not.
Are you saying I’m a conman who gets his jollies pretending to be an brilliant businessman? I plead guilty as charged.
I’m saying you are a troll obsessed with another man.
The only man I’m obsessed with is Vlad. He makes my fat arthritic knees weak just thinking about him.
You’re obsessed with the man you so desperately want to be.
I’ve been able to weaponize and monetize stupid. Where is my MacArthur genius grant? Not fair.
Get off his nuts it makes you seem weak.
Who am I speaking with? gurt, Kenny, Ken, Shockandawe, one of the trump names, Andy, h4cksaw which personality did you choose today?
What’s weird is nobody on here is trying to act like Biden only one “dude” is acting like he is trump. Reading comprehension is definitely not your strong suit so you are forgiven for not knowing the difference.
You would think that these companies would not hitch their wagon to a failed president that will be out of office in 34 months if not sooner.
Thank you for your support. I can’t wait to get back into office and rule the world with Kim and Vlad. We’ll be bigger and better than Adolph, Tojo and Benito ever was.
Rent free you are so obsessed with Biden you even named your username after him. Triggered much?
“Additionally, the automaker group added that it would like to secure “critical regulatory provisions” that support electric vehicle technology.”
In other words, taxpayer subsidies to entice people to buy vehicles that cannot stand by themselves.
Of course GM supports it because it helps squeeze the competition that don’t have a long-term EV strategy. I find this part of corporate behavior to be quite distasteful.
That’s why we need an economic crash.
Only way to end this toxic behavior in corporate America.
Evan,
If that happens, prepare yourself to survive by eating c0ckroaches.
Its land lobster sir…..
I’m just not a fan of the free market libertarian principle of using the long arm of the government to beat down competitors. It’s a quirk of mine.
China is doing it to American corporations and it’s working brilliantly. The military are hacking intellectual property and passing it over to their corporations. All endorsed by the CCP. That’s how they obtained all schematics for all versions of the F35 and have built their own version.
s: China is a pipeline suction of USA technical information. They obtained the drawings, schedules, and technical information for the P&H 4100 electric mining shovel for open pit mines. Currently China is producing knock offs of the 4100 for Asian and Russian open pit mines.
Also Caterpillar has moved their track machine undercarriage manufacturing to China from East Peoria, Illinois.
We are sadly losing it piece by piece.
How long before Mary gets replaced?
Soon I hope! Before she completely destroys GM.
I guess unless it is a Denali or Escalade it going to have to have a 4T or 3T or they will never make it.
Government and Corporations holding hands and skipping down the street together to screw regular folks….
Did anyone vote for the EPA to do this in their last election? I didn’t get a ballot? Did you?
Oh yeah totally….like food shortages make you healthy by eating less….
How?
There was a time when the EPA pushed automakers to clean up the emissions from their cars. The standards were always becoming more stringent to force continued improvement and the automakers always pushed back. It strikes me that if gm and others are no longer opposed to the EPA, then it perhaps isn’t needed at all. The organization and its laws were only needed to change behavior.
Let gm build what they want now, let them lead and innovate without any edicts from the government and without any taxpayer funding to subsidize what the government was formerly pushing for. The market will have then been made well and truly free again.
So, to follow your logic, if, say, burglary rates go down, we no longer need burglary laws? ‘Cuz it’ll be evidence that we’ll all have finally understood that taking things that don’t belong to us is wrong?
You obviously understand why EFI and electronic ignition are standard equipment today. You know that, without the EPA pushing them, automakers wouldn’t have had the incentive to invest in the R&D to bring those things to us. You know that, thanks to the EPA, today’s Honda Civic outperforms yesterday’s Hemi ‘Cuda in all respects. Except Cool.
Sadly, we haven’t yet entered some magical era in which automakers do the right thing, costs be damned….
Ci2Eye spends a lot of time eating hot dogs at the Costco courtyard and keeping an EYE out for Cadillac deals for me.
Another great “EPA-ÖKO-Story”, but it’s actually wrong! Again, it only affects CARS and no pickups and heavy large SUVs.
That’s why GM and FORD also agree because both produce massively heavy SUVs and pickups.
And the MPGe for EV SUVs will probably become even more of a laughingstock!
But let’s wait and see if anyone still notices that EV SUVs are energy destroyers and ICE are ecological marvels, especially with e-fuels and H2 as fuel!
Have a nice and happy April 1st, 2022until the next Öko message comes from NGOs.
I live a very ecologically minded lifestyle, but the EPA is no longer what it’s name professes. It’s a puppet of the alternative energy moguls, so they can go to Hell!
The electric cars are a step in to the future to get to better fuel for are cars and trucks, the oil companies have keep us in this rut making us depended on them we need to move on to get to something better the electric is just stepping stone to the future.
Another issue is how many people are getting rip off by car dealerships I got a new truck took 8 months to get it to the dealer offered me 23500.00 for my trade in when I ordered it put when I went to pick up they would only give 19000.00 for it. then they sold it 30700.00.
Has any body looked at their electric bill lately? So when we finally go all EV and we don’t need gas anymore for our cars, that’s when the electric companies nationwide are going to lower their rates, right? Has anybody heard the terms ” grid down” and ” brown out”?
electric is not the total answer but staying on oil is not going to last there is just so much oil in the ground and have you looked at the gas price lately.
So what’s your solution, smart guy? Obviously you didn’t get my point, it’s a no win situation, duh! And no would you send me pictures of the gas prices, I haven’t filled up in years!
Why is GM always more concerned about making brownie points with the government instead of with their customers?
GM needs new leadership!
Hillbilly states refusing to accept that the ” times are a changing ” ! Still lamenting
the demise of buggy whip factories !
GM and various other automakers are committed to electrics while in the meantime Cummins has designed and developed an IC engine that has very favorable speed, torque, life and maintenance that operates on 100% pure Ethanol and produces zero emissions. Only heat.
So we have a huge game changer here with Cummins new zero emissions internal combustion engine. This is going to put the automakers and truck builders in a heads spin since they have been on the path with battery electric propel.
Ethanol combustion produces aldehydes so it is not zero emissions. The energy density is lower than gasoline so it also produces more CO2 per mile which is why there is a big push to replace IC engines, no matter the fuel burned.
John Q. Public:
Cummins is hell bent on their concept, design, and engineering for their 100% pure Ethanol internal combustion engine. Their fuel delivery of course will be electronically sequenced and their combustion movement sequenced to the high pressure injection. Alledgedly to provide zero emissions and favorable power. This is what I have been learning and talking to a diesel engine docent. The proof will be in the release and use. Cummins is a very conservative company. Even more so than Caterpillar.
A portfolio with all 1500 series pickups and SUVs above 8500lb GVWR is on the way to resolve CAFE issues.
Too bad G.M. already caved in on electric cars, along with others, or they wouldn’t be backing the destruction of their own automotive industry.
If monkeys like you were running GM, you would be preparing the papers for the second bankruptcy. Guys just like you were responsible for the first one.