This happened two days ago, but it isn’t being talked about enough. American car makers might only be selling in domestic markets soon.
Specifically, the agency eliminated the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding published during the Obama Administration, thus removing federal greenhouse gas emission standards for all model-year 2012 to 2027 and beyond vehicles, the agency announced via a press release.
“The U.S. ceasing regulation of greenhouse gases is, in fact, unlikely to have a major impact on automaker R&D spending as no other major car market is lowering or eliminating standards, so automakers will still need to invest in technologies to meet those requirements in order to sell outside the U.S.”
It’s not clear how automakers will respond to this deregulation, as they all operate globally and the U.S. accounts for just one, albeit big, market.
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Its going to come down to money.
Is the tech to keep it cleaner cheaper than not?
If it saves them $50 a car to use something less clean they’ll use it if they can sell it nationwide vs using the more expensive part for global exports.
If they can’t do it at a national level due to specific state rules, then they’d probably just use the more expensive option everywhere to keep production and supply chains for the country the same.