WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump posted on Saturday he approved new fuel economy standards that terminate the Biden administration’s electric vehicles mandate.
“These new Standards will take the waste out of building cars in America. That means LOWER PRICES, saving families thousands on a new, beautiful, and safe car,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
The Trump administration last month said it would soon announce sharply lower vehicle fuel-economy standards, reversing a push by the prior administration to force automakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Under President Joe Biden, the US government sought to prod automakers to build more electric vehicles to meet rising fuel-efficiency standards.
(Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; Editing by Sergio Non and Andrea Ricci)
