Automakers Urge Trump to Ease Fuel Efficiency Rules
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An auto trade group asked U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to ease requirements on making vehicles more fuel efficient and to protect the industry from “unfair” practices by China.
John Bozzella, president of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which lobbies for most major automakers such as Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Stellantis NV, Honda Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp., said in a letter to Trump that was made public on Nov. 21 that automakers are facing “headwinds” such as “unfair competition from heavily subsidized electric vehicles and technologies imported from China.”
He also highlighted emissions rules at federal and state levels, “particularly in California and affiliated states,” that he said increase consumer costs and challenge carmaker compliance.
“Even as automakers invest in an increasingly connected, automated and electrified vehicle fleet, they face unprecedented geopolitical and market pressures,” Bozzella wrote in the letter, which was dated Nov. 12.
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The incoming Trump administration is widely expected to roll back U.S. fuel economy standards enacted by the Biden administration that require carmakers to achieve an average of more than 50 mpg across all their vehicles by 2031.
The administration likely will target California’s right to set stricter gas mileage rules than the federal government to limit pollution, a right established in the 1970 Clean Air Act. California and states including Oregon and Colorado are exempt from rules that preempt them from enacting their own new-vehicle emissions standards. More than a dozen states, representing over one-third of the U.S. auto market, now follow California’s rules.
The federal government and California battled over auto emissions throughout Trump’s first term.
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