EPA Removal of Vehicle Emissions Limits Won't Stop the Shift to Electric Vehicles, but Will Make It Harder

The EPA plans to block limits on vehicle emissions. Will that stop the shift to EVs?

The U.S. government is in full retreat from its efforts to make vehicles more fuel-efficient, which it has been waging, along with state governments, since the 1970s. The latest move came on July 29, 2025, when the Environmental Protection Agency said it planned to rescind its landmark 2009 decision, known as the “endangerment finding,” that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. If that stands up in court and is not overru…

Here's why Trump can't stop the shift to electric cars

By Alan Jenn, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis.The U.S. government is in full retreat from its efforts to make vehicles more fuel-efficient, which it has been waging, along with state governments, since the 1970s.The latest move came on July...

EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won't stop the shift to electric vehicles, but will make it harder

The U.S. government is in full retreat from its efforts to make vehicles more fuel-efficient, which it has been waging, along with state governments, since the 1970s.

EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won’t stop the shift to electric vehicles, but will make it harder, slower and more expensive

Customers have embraced electric vehicles; policy changes may decrease that interest but will not eliminate it.