Trump wants to kill emissions in California. Here is what this means to EVS

This week, the White House and President Donald Trump tried to kill, once and forever, the California plan to accelerate the sale of cars and trucks with zero emissions in the state. At a ceremony in Washington, DC, attended on Thursday by CEO, Trump signed three decisions approved by Congress aimed at canceling the cancellation The power of California is approximately 60 years old to put it Car emissions rules.

When doing this, the federal government aims to one of the most ambitious vehicle electrification plans – and climate policies – in the world: California’s goal The sale of new gas vehicles in the state by 2035. The country, along with 10 others, pledged to follow the rules of the most aggressive emissions, approximately a third of new car sales every year, allowing it huge power to dictate the car market in the country. Today, one of every four vehicles sold in California is either electric cars or hybrid ingredients.

This step will not affect the types of cars available in the galleries and many today, or until next year, the experts say. But an attempt to cancel the California authorities, along with a group of other policies aimed at electric cars – including the attempt to the Environmental Protection Agency Fuel economy standards in vehicle consumption; Congress Pay to Nix EV tax credits; And the transfer department Funding pause For the national shipping infrastructure of EV – it can affect the car buyers’ interest in electrical transmission. In other words, electrical feelings are bad.

“(Cars) production decisions are baked and take years to change,” says Kara Horwitz, Executive Director of the Emit Institute on Climate Change and Environment at the University of California Law Faculty of Los Angeles. “But if there is a feeling among consumers about losing in the momentum (electric car), the feeling of the market may be.”

“This is a great opposite wind,” says Simon Moy, who runs the invitation to the Policy of Clean Vehicles in the NARDC.

California immediately responded on Thursday with a suit. Governor Gavin Newsom as well State agencies instructions To find new ways to enhance zero emissions in the state.

Decisions are based on a new legal theory offered by Republican lawmakers that they can use Congress Authority usually applied to the rules of the Federal Agency to get rid of the “waiver” authority in California, which was established in 1967 as part of the clean air law. These exemptions give the state a unique force to set the standards of its vehicle emissions.

“It is a completely unprecedented approach,” said California Public Prosecutor Rob Punta in an interview. “The Trump administration is trying to manage these marginal theories, or only these theories are completely unlawful, to try to do things that they cannot do already.”

Ten other states, including Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, joined the lawsuit.

It seems that the variable shape of the American electric vehicle market had already had some influence on buyers ’parking towards battery -run cars. Sales data show that although Americans are still buying electricity, The growth rate slows down. These feelings, in addition to changing the regulations and customs tariff policies, led to unprecedented “levels” of “ruin” for auto manufacturers, according to a report issued last week by Bank of America. They wrote: “The next four years will be+ the most uncertain time and volatility in the product strategy at all.” Analysts indicated that the model years from 2026 to 2029 will witness only 159 new American models, at an annual rate less than 20 years earlier.