Major automakers are siding with the EPA in a court battle over harsher emissions standards, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
Texas and 15 other states, along with the ethanol groups, challenged EPA emissions rules under the Biden administration, to reinstate tougher rules after the previous administration’s reinstatement.
The Automotive Innovation Alliance, a trade group that represents most automakers that sell cars in the United States, said in a court filing that the EPA’s rules “will challenge the industry.” ” but provides automakers with “critically important flexibility.”
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The group also said its members want to ensure that “critical regulatory provisions supporting electric vehicle technology are maintained.”
That’s a significant boost from the automakers considering the plaintiffs’ arguments in the lawsuit surrounding the EPA’s accusations that the automaker must make electric cars. They claim that tighter emissions are more beneficial to battery-electric powertrains than internal combustion, and that the EPA cannot appear to favor one technology over another.
Automakers are presenting a more united front than they have been in a legal battle over California’s ability to set its own emissions standards, a state-to-state battle and the Trump administration.
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In 2020, a wide range of automakers Step up back to Californiaamid a challenge to the Clean Air Act authority, but several others, including General Motors, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (now Stellantis) and Toyota none of them. Although, at least in GM’s case, obvious reputational damageThe opposition continued until Trump’s term ended.
The Biden administration just started this week steeper fines are reinstated related to Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) compliance. But a surplus of credits will help ensure compliance, a 2021 EPA report suggests.
