{"id":94125,"date":"2026-02-19T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automotive.einnews.com\/article\/893627702"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:26:08","slug":"trump-rescinding-rule-incentivizing-ev-production-so-automakers-meet-fuel-economy-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-rescinding-rule-incentivizing-ev-production-so-automakers-meet-fuel-economy-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Rescinding Rule Incentivizing EV Production So Automakers Meet Fuel Economy Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"nav nav-tabs tabs tabs-entry\">\n<li class=\"active\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.claimsjournal.com\/news\/national\/2026\/02\/19\/335776.htm\">Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.claimsjournal.com\/news\/national\/2026\/02\/19\/335776.htm?comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">0 Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"article-content clearfix\">\n<p class=\"reuters\">The Trump administration said Wednesday it is rescinding a rule that incentivized automakers to produce electric vehicles to meet fuel economy requirements by overstating energy savings.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists have long criticized the Energy Department rules for assigning unrealistically high fuel-economy values to electric vehicles, which are then used to calculate fleetwide averages under Federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claimsjournal.com\/news\/national\/2026\/02\/13\/335709.htm\">Stellantis Resurrects Diesel Cars Across Europe Amid EV Retreat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Energy Department said following an appeals court decision in September it will remove the provision known as the fuel content factor from its calculations, and plans to propose additional revisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuel Content Factor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The DOE said it had concluded that the fuel content factor was \u201cunlawful\u201d and was issuing a rule to immediately remove it from fuel economy calculations.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration initially proposed eliminating the fuel content factor from the calculations, effective in 2027, which would have lowered the compliance value of electric vehicles by around 70%.<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure from automakers, the Energy Department in 2024 opted to phase it out through 2030. Automakers noted previously the fuel content factor results in an assessed fuel economy roughly seven times higher than would be calculated based on only the Energy Department\u2019s gasoline-equivalent energy content of electricity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuel Economy Values<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Environmental groups during the Biden administration had urged the revision to the EV mileage calculation, arguing \u201cexcessively high imputed fuel economy values for EVs means that a relatively small number of EVs will mathematically guarantee compliance without meaningful improvements in the real-world average fuel economy of automakers\u2019 overall fleets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December, the Trump administration proposed slashing fuel economy standards that Biden had finalized in 2024, in a push to make it easier for automakers to sell gasoline-powered cars.<\/p>\n<p>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed significantly reducing the fuel economy requirements from model years 2022 to 2031, requiring 34.5 miles per gallon on average by 2031, down from 50.4 miles per gallon (21.4 km per liter).<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Trump signed legislation that ended fuel economy penalties for automakers, and NHTSA said they faced no fines dating back to the 2022 model year. But automakers are worried a future administration will reinstate those penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has taken a series of steps to disincentivize EV purchases and production and make it easier to produce gas-powered models.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reporting by Shepardson; Editing by David Holmes)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-poll\" data-post=\"335776\">\n<div class=\"article-poll-vote\">\n<p>Was this article valuable?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-poll-feedback voted-no\">\n<p>Thank you! Please tell us what we can do to improve this article.<\/p>\n<p> <textarea><\/textarea> <button type=\"submit\" class=\"submit\" disabled>Submit<\/button> <button class=\"cancel\">No Thanks<\/button>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"article-poll-feedback voted-yes\">\n<p>Thank you! <span class=\"percent\"><\/span>% of people found this article valuable. Please tell us what you liked about it.<\/p>\n<p> <textarea><\/textarea> <button type=\"submit\" class=\"submit\" disabled>Submit<\/button> <button class=\"cancel\">No Thanks<\/button>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"article-poll-more-articles\">\n<p class=\"thank-you-text\">Here are more articles you may enjoy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\"> <\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; a rule that incentivized <span class=\"match\">automakers<\/span> to produce electric vehicles &#8230; 70%. Under pressure from <span class=\"match\">automakers<\/span>, the Energy Department in &#8230; it out through 2030. <span class=\"match\">Automakers<\/span> noted previously the fuel &#8230; world average fuel economy of <span class=\"match\">automakers<\/span>\u00e2\u0080\u0099 overall fleets.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In December &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}