U.S. Tightens Car Mileage Rules, Part of Strategy to Fight Climate Change
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The new measure requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon for all the car models they sell by 2031.

The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger vehicles would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per gallon, up from 35.1 miles per gallon. Selling electric vehicles and hybrids would help bring up the average mileage per gallon across their product lines.

    • awesomesauce309@midwest.socialEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      In many different areas. This is the per year registration fees in Ohio. These fees are meant to compensate for road damage, which is calculated based on vehicle weight. Except Ohio just said “well batteries are heavy, charge them.”

      A lifted diesel super duty getting 12mpg will run you 0 dollars and 0 cents whereas even a plug in hybrid runs 150$ per year. Completely independent from the weight of the vehicle.

      Biden can do what he wants but conservative states will constantly delay the transition to EVs, slowing adoption, infrastructure and the publics willingness at every opportunity.

        • Voytrekk@lemmy.world
          4·
          5 months ago

          That’s the real reason. They collect plenty of tax from the gas pumps, so they needed another way. The other option would be toll roads, which I haven’t seen here in Ohio.

      • Dogyote@slrpnk.net
        2·
        5 months ago

        That lifted diesel super duty getting 12mpg will get the state $0.47 in tax per gallon of diesel. If I did the math correctly that’s $391.67 per 10,000 miles. That’s about a years worth of driving for most people.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
    7·
    5 months ago

    A step in the right direction, but it should be even higher. The car industry should be complaining about it, not happily agreeing to it.

    All that aside, we also should start priorizing the many other ways of getting around cities and states that don’t rely on cars and planes so much.

    Bullet trains, crashproof bike lanes, and wide pedestrian paths should take priority. Give people options, and it makes life way easier.

  • Voytrekk@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 months ago

    The standards will also require heavy-duty pickup trucks, such as the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD, and large vans, such as Amazon delivery vans, to reach 35 miles per gallon by 2035, up from 18.8 miles per gallon today

    This is a step in the right direction, but it would be better if the standards for passenger cars would include all consumer vehicles.