{"id":94350,"date":"2026-02-19T06:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automotive.einnews.com\/article\/893656764"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:04:05","slug":"trump-rescinds-rule-incentivizing-automakers-to-produce-evs-amid-epa-rollback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-rescinds-rule-incentivizing-automakers-to-produce-evs-amid-epa-rollback\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Rescinds Rule Incentivizing Automakers To Produce EVs Amid EPA Rollback"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump<\/strong>‘s Department of Energy (DOE) has rescinded a rule that incentivized automakers to produce more EVs to comply with Fuel Economy norms.<\/p>\n

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Fuel Content Factor On EVs<\/h2>\n

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The rescinded provision, called the “fuel content factor,” allowed automakers to calculate fleetwide fuel economy by assigning higher-than-usual efficiency figures to electric vehicles, which then helped bring down the fleetwide fuel consumption figures, Reuters reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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The agency, according to the report, cited an appeals court decision back in September as the basis for following through on the decision to remove the provision.<\/p>\n

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EPA, CAFE Rollback<\/h2>\n

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The decision could further prove to be a headwind for EVs, which have already been affected by Trump’s decision to roll back the 2009 Endangerment Finding<\/a> by the EPA.<\/p>\n

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GM, Ford Reaffirm EVs<\/h2>\n

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