April 12 (Washington, D.C.) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Transportation and Air Quality issued a proposed rule to set new multipollutant standards for light and medium-duty vehicles sold from 2027-2032. The rule will dramatically reduce the climate impact and air pollution caused by new cars, SUVs, vans, light trucks, and medium-duty vehicles. In an important first, EPA is including medium-duty vans and trucks in the same rulemaking as cars, SUVs, and light trucks. EPA’s proposed rule would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty vehicles by 11-15% per year, an improvement over the annual reduction in the current standard of 8% for 2022-2026. It also locks in the growth in electric vehicle (EV) sales and billions of dollars of consumer savings expected from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) which offered consumers up to $7,500 to go electric. Indeed, the rule would result in a 54-63% light-duty sales share for EVs in 2030 and a 64-69% share in 2032, exceeding President Biden’s goal of at least 50% sales by 2030 and sending a clear signal to automakers, charging companies, and utilities about the growing market. EPA’s rule is a blueprint for the pace of the electric transition in the U.S. (....)