— a cornerstone of its climate agenda, its primary response as the transportation sector become the country’s top source of emissions. Passenger cars and trucks alone accounted for 15% of all U.S. emissions in 2020, according to EPA data.The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, the lobbying group for automakers and suppliers, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But it could be years before those changes produce major improvements, analysts said. EPA said sales of electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel-cell vehicles are projected to reach 8% of production in model year 2022, up from 4% in the prior model year. “With the transition to electric vehicles, there’s a lot less resources being put into better fuel efficiency than 10 years ago,” said Jessica Caldwell, lead analyst at Edmunds, a car-shopping support company. “Automakers have hit sort of the ceiling on the levers they can pull to get better fuel efficiency for gas-powered engines that aren’t hybrid or plug-ins.
“Today’s report demonstrates the significant progress we’ve made to ensure clean air for all as automakers continue to innovate and utilize more advanced technologies to cut pollution,” the EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement.
Fake news
How is the US auto emissions the real issue regarding greenhouse gases? I’ve seen pictures of China and India, their industrial cities look 💯 time worse ours, 370 million peeps vs 2.8 billion. Don’t need a PHD to understand. Common sense is a powerful tool.
Any of your esteemed ‘journalists’ care to report on how the old Twitter interferes with the election in 2020? Your silence is deafening.
WaPo...you need more editors and less activism.
I’m old enough to remember 1975 with probably 60% less cars and San Francisco smogged out our cars and fuels burn cleaner than ever, so stick a windmill on the back of your car and be quiet.
What is this word salad trying to say? Ridiculous.
TIME TO RELEASE THE PATENTS ON THE CARBURETORS FROM 65 Years Ago! Buried by BIG OIL and The Bush’s among Others!!!
How do you explain volcanoes millions of tons of green house gas into the air. about 50 plus going off now. humans cant match that out put climate change by nature not human. another power grab by govt s?
5 percent? We all know that it's bullshyte. Nobody is measuring. Stop lying. Too funny!
like what if they key to efficiency was lifestyle and not the actual car like using the car less lifestyle so the relative efficiency of yhe car would matter even less
this is why a move to EV's must be accelerated. Govt should help acquiring the necessary minerals.