Going electric: the drive to turbocharge a car revolution

The US EPA has imposed regulations on car makers to increase production of electric vehicles

GMC Hummer EVs at General Motors’ Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan
‘Regulations drive results’
(Image credit: Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

It’s not often a regulatory body sets out to remake an entire industry, said the Los Angeles Times, but that’s just what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to do with the automakers. A good thing too. Last week it proposed new emission rules that require manufacturers to electrify two-thirds of their passenger vehicles by 2032, “about half of new buses, garbage trucks and delivery vans” and up to 25% of new trucks. All the above will have to be zero­-emission by then.

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