An alliance of 15 conservative state attorney generals and oil companies legally challenged the EPA’s ambitious, new clean car emissions rules. Paradoxically, they seek to preclude EPA from considering solutions that are both zero emissions and more cost-effective.
Under the Clean Air Act, EPA establishes fleet-wide emissions performance standards for new motor vehicles and the auto makers determine the most appropriate and cost-effective way to achieve those standards. As with previous EPA actions under both political parties, the auto makers will decide how the pollution reductions are to be achieved and which technologies are cost-effective and appropriate.
In establishing emission standards for new motor vehicles, EPA carefully considers technological readiness, cost of compliance, consumer impacts, and safety, among other factors. That’s exactly what happened while determining these new emission standards. Hundreds of EPA engineers and scientists again analyzed all available automotive technologies capable of meeting emissions reduction targets, including improved internal combustion engines, hybrids, and EVs.
According to data from the US Department of Transportation, the US Energy Information Agency and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, EVs are already more than $500 per year cheaper to drive than new gasoline cars at $3 per gallon gasoline. At $5 per gallon gasoline, which some analysts predict is possible if the EU joins the U.S. in banning Russian oil imports, EV owners would save nearly $1,500 a year compared to their gasoline car counterparts.
Recognizing the availability of zero emitting vehicles is not the same as dictating how auto manufacturers meet their targets. In fact, when EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced these new standards, he had the support of Ford, GM, and Stellantis . While EPA’s performance-based emissions standards are ambitious—and disliked by fuel company lobbyists—they largely reflect what is already taking place in the private sector.
This investment to date is already paying off with consumers. After years of steady but incremental growth in the U.S., EV
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