Electric vehicle advances could allow Biden to demand much bigger reductions in greenhouse emissions from cars/trucks than Obama sought-if he can convince auto workers/suppliers/companies they will thrive in an electrified future.
https://twitter.com/RonBrownstein/status/1356633597654913024
Environmentalists want Biden to set EPA standards that would end new sales of internal combustion engine vehicles after 2035 (as CA has done and GM says it aspires to). His admin won't commit to that yet, but clearly see opportunity for a path to zero emissions.
Gina McCarthy, the top WH climate adviser tells me: "People in our discussions understand that the future is about electric vehicles. ... How do we make sure that we do this in a way that the labor community is engaged, that we advance the manufacture of these vehicles in the US
and that we establish standards that are reasonable, but also achieve getting to zero [emissions] as quickly as we can, and what does that date look like?"
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