https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/climate/biden-epa-auto-emissions.html
Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars
The change to planned rules was an election-year concession to labor unions and auto executives, according to people familiar with the plan.
In a concession to automakers and labor unions, the Biden administration intends to relax elements of one of its most ambitious strategies to combat climate change, limits on tailpipe emissions that are designed to get Americans to switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles, according to three people familiar with the plan.
Instead of essentially requiring automakers to rapidly ramp up sales of electric vehicles over the next few years, the administration would give car manufacturers more time, with a sharp increase in sales not required until after 2030, these people said. They asked to remain anonymous because the regulation has not been finalized. The administration plans to publish the final rule by early spring.
The change comes as President Biden faces intense crosswinds as he runs for re-election while trying to confront climate change. He is aiming to cut carbon dioxide emissions from gasoline-powered vehicles, which make up the largest single source of greenhouse gases emitted by the United States.
At the same time, Mr. Biden needs cooperation from the auto industry and political support from the unionized auto workers who backed him in 2020 but now worry that an abrupt transition to electric vehicles would cost jobs. Meanwhile, consumer demand has not been what automakers hoped, with potential buyers put off by sticker prices and the relative scarcity of charging stations.
Sensing an opening, former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican front-runner, has seized on electric cars, falsely warning the public that they “don’t work” and telling autoworkers that Mr. Biden’s policies are “lunacy” that he would extinguish on “the first day” of his return to the White House.
Last spring, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the toughest-ever limits on tailpipe emissions. The rules would be so strict, the only way car makers could comply would be to sell a tremendous number of zero-emissions vehicles in a relatively short time frame.
The E.P.A. designed the proposed regulations so that 67 percent of sales of new cars and light-duty trucks would be all-electric by 2032, up from 7.6 percent in 2023, a radical remaking of the American automobile market.
拜登大選年妥協,美國計劃放緩電車轉型步伐
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作者:徐良輝
保護環境,還是保護車商利益,拜登必須抉擇。
電動車市場需求下滑,拜登政府或許不得不放緩電車轉型推進速度。
據媒體援引相關人士消息,拜登政府正在考慮放寬尾氣排放法規。該法規的目的是促使美國人從汽油車和柴油車轉向電動車。而這一潛在的政策變化,就是爲了回應目前主要汽車製造商和工會的擔憂。消息人士稱:
政府將給與汽車製造商更多時間,不要求汽車製造商在未來幾年內迅速提高電動車的銷量,直到2030年後才要求大幅增加電動車銷量。
這一潛在政策變化誕生的背景,是電動汽車需求下滑,福特汽車等公司削減電動車產量並開始裁員。
早在2023年底,美國3900家汽車經銷商致信拜登總統,以電動汽車需求嚴重下滑爲由,要求拜登重新考慮電動車授權的步伐。經銷商稱:“目前電動車需求,跟不上現行法規促使大量純電動汽車湧入我們經銷們店的速度。純電動車已經在我們經銷門店堆積如山了。”
加拿大皇家銀行分析師Tom Narayan在最近的一份報告中指出,電動汽車增長放緩的趨勢遠未結束:
業績季迄今爲止並未展現出任何跡象,來表明電動汽車需求放緩出現任何拐點,L4駕駛的不利因素依然存在,但對供應商庫存所剩的擔憂可能是被過分誇大的。
面對電動汽車市場萎靡的需求,汽車製造商削減電動車產能效果卻是極佳。 上個月,福特公司的電動車售罄,主要原因就是福特削減了純電動車F-150 Lightning的產,來實現“生產、銷售增長和利潤的最佳平衡”。
此外,電動汽車需求的下滑也印證了豐田公司董事長兼前CEO豐田章男此前所說:電動汽車永遠不會主導全球市場,混合動力汽車才是未來。
https://today.line.me/tw/v2/article/60Rp5J9
美EV需求下滑車商及工會憂 拜登政府擬放寬「尾氣排放法」
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據媒體援引相關人士消息,拜登政府正在考慮放寬尾氣排放法規。該法規的目的是促使美國人從汽油車和柴油車轉向電動車。而這一潛在的政策變化,主因目前主要汽車製造商和工會的擔憂。消息人士稱政府將不要求給汽車製造商在未來幾年內迅速提高電動車的銷量,一直到2030年後。
這一潛在政策變化誕生的背景,是電動汽車需求下滑,福特汽車等公司削減電動車產量並開始裁員。早在2023年底,美國3900家汽車經銷商致信拜登總統,以電動汽車需求嚴重下滑為由,要求拜登重新考慮電動車授權的步伐。經銷商稱,目前電動車需求,跟不上現行法規促使大量純電動汽車湧入經銷商門市的速度,「純電動車已經在店內堆積如山了。」
加拿大皇家銀行分析師近期發布報告指出,電動汽車增長放緩的趨勢遠未結束。業績季迄今為止並未展現出任何跡象,來表明電動汽車需求放緩出現任何拐點。面對電動汽車市場萎靡的需求,汽車製造商削減電動車產能效果卻是極佳。福特公司上個月電動車售罄,主要原因就是福特削減了純電動車F-150 Lightning的產量,來實現生產、銷售增長和利潤的最佳平衡。
此外,電動汽車需求的下滑也印證了豐田公司董事長兼前CEO豐田章男此前所說,「電動汽車永遠不會主導全球市場,混合動力汽車才是未來。」
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/climate/biden-epa-auto-emissions.html
Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars
The change to planned rules was an election-year concession to labor unions and auto executives, according to people familiar with the plan.
In a concession to automakers and labor unions, the Biden administration intends to relax elements of one of its most ambitious strategies to combat climate change, limits on tailpipe emissions that are designed to get Americans to switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles, according to three people familiar with the plan.
Instead of essentially requiring automakers to rapidly ramp up sales of electric vehicles over the next few years, the administration would give car manufacturers more time, with a sharp increase in sales not required until after 2030, these people said. They asked to remain anonymous because the regulation has not been finalized. The administration plans to publish the final rule by early spring.
The change comes as President Biden faces intense crosswinds as he runs for re-election while trying to confront climate change. He is aiming to cut carbon dioxide emissions from gasoline-powered vehicles, which make up the largest single source of greenhouse gases emitted by the United States.
At the same time, Mr. Biden needs cooperation from the auto industry and political support from the unionized auto workers who backed him in 2020 but now worry that an abrupt transition to electric vehicles would cost jobs. Meanwhile, consumer demand has not been what automakers hoped, with potential buyers put off by sticker prices and the relative scarcity of charging stations.
Sensing an opening, former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican front-runner, has seized on electric cars, falsely warning the public that they “don’t work” and telling autoworkers that Mr. Biden’s policies are “lunacy” that he would extinguish on “the first day” of his return to the White House.
Last spring, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the toughest-ever limits on tailpipe emissions. The rules would be so strict, the only way car makers could comply would be to sell a tremendous number of zero-emissions vehicles in a relatively short time frame.
The E.P.A. designed the proposed regulations so that 67 percent of sales of new cars and light-duty trucks would be all-electric by 2032, up from 7.6 percent in 2023, a radical remaking of the American automobile market.
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