Trump revokes EV mandate to ‘save US auto industry’ in blow to Biden’s legacy

President Donald Trump has said his administration will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, rolling back his predecessor’s policies aimed at expanding EVs. 

In March 2024, President Joe Biden issued one of the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history, a rule designed to ensure that the majority of new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States are all-electric or hybrids by 2032. EVs were central to Biden’s strategy to confront global warming, 

“With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers. In other words, you’ll be able to buy the car of your choice,” Trump told Americans in his inaugural address on Monday.

He said the United States would build automobiles again “at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago.”