The draft called for a rapid ramp up to requiring 67 percent of new cars, S.U.V.s and pickups to run on electricity by 2032. Instead, the administration will slow the ramp up, delaying the switch to clean electric cars. This will mean America’s new cars will use more oil, spew more pollution, intensify global warming and sicken more kids with asthma. Myopic automakers may profit in the short term but pay in the long run when the world’s largest E.V. U.S. car companies never recovered the huge market share they lost to Japanese companies in the 1970s and ’80s.

Source: New York Times February 21, 2024 06:49 UTC