{"id":162133,"date":"2021-03-26T14:31:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=162133"},"modified":"2021-03-26T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:02:12","slug":"buttigieg-unaware-of-plan-to-end-gas-powered-vehicle-sales-despite-democrats-pressure-on-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2021\/03\/buttigieg-unaware-of-plan-to-end-gas-powered-vehicle-sales-despite-democrats-pressure-on-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg “Unaware” of Plan to End Gas-Powered Vehicle Sales Despite Democrats Pressure on Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Transportation<\/a>
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he was unaware of any plan to set a date to end the sale of gas- and diesel-powered vehicles in the U.S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Biden administration\u2019s pro-EV stance doesn\u2019t necessarily required the elimination of gas- and diesel-powered vehicles at the same time, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.<\/p>\n

Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana and one-time presidential candidate, offered up the insight during a U.S. House hearing Thursday. He said he is unaware of any desire or plan to ban the production and sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.<\/p>\n

The push comes from California, which implemented the ban last year, and the state\u2019s two U.S. Senators, Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla. The duo sent President Joe Biden a letter last week<\/a><\/u><\/strong> asking him to set a timetable for phasing the sale of those vehicles. Biden came out against the plan during the campaign.<\/p>\n

Apparently, nothing has changed since Jan. 20, as Buttigieg noted he had \u201cnot heard of anything to that effect at the national or federal level,\u201d according to Reuters. He did acknowledge the efforts of General Motors and other automakers looking to end production by then, but noted he\u2019s not \u201cheard of that in a mandatory context but that certainly seems to be where the U.S. auto industry is headed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden campaigned on an aggressively EV-friendly platform<\/a><\/u><\/strong>, calling for the installation of 500,000 new EV chargers by the end of 2030 and 1 million new jobs in the automotive industry, primarily expected to rise out of the growth of the zero-emission push.<\/p>\n

The call gets louder<\/h3>\n
\"Senator<\/a>
California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla sent a letter to Biden asking him to set a timetable to ban gas- and diesel-powered vehicle sales in the U.S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unsurprisingly, Feinstein and Padilla are gaining support from other Democrats in Congress. This week, more than 70 House Democrats sent Biden a letter, pressing for tougher emissions and fuel economy rules, including a mandate requiring 60% of new vehicles be zero emission. Additionally, 10 more Senators joined that call, led by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Markey.<\/p>\n

In their own letter, they called for the new administration to reinstate the more stringent rules put in place by the Obama administration. Those rules, which Biden helped craft as vice president, required a 5% annual improvement in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy through 2025. He then went a step further.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also urge you to set a date by which new sales of fossil fuel vehicles will end entirely, as California and Massachusetts have done by 2035, to ensure that we are on a trajectory to achieve the near-zero emission fleet that scientists have called for by 2050,\u201d Markey wrote.<\/p>\n

Senators Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland), Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon), Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico), and Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) joined Markey in signing the letter.<\/p>\n

\"President<\/a>
President Joe Biden’s EV-friendly stance hasn’t included a defined end date for ICE-powered cars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why 2035?<\/h3>\n

The push for 2035 stems from the efforts of several countries in Europe that initially began putting a ban in place by 2040, but several, like Great Britain, have shortened the timeframe to 2030 or 2035. The earlier deadline allows for hybrids and other zero-emission vehicles to be sold with 2035 being the drop dead date for the switch to battery-electric only.<\/p>\n

A slew of European automakers ranging from Bentley to Volvo to Jaguar and Land Rover have already committed to battery-electric-only line-ups by that date and others are pushing to meet the mandate as well. Nearly a dozen legacy makers are making the push toward all-electric futures<\/a><\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., California Governor Gavin Newsome issued an order last fall<\/a><\/u><\/strong> to ban the sale of ICE-powered vehicles by 2035 \u2014 signing it on the hood of a new Ford Mustang Mach-E \u2014 and New Jersey followed suit a month later. The aforementioned GM revealed its plans earlier this year to shift to selling only zero-emissions vehicles by 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Biden administration\u2019s pro-EV stance doesn\u2019t necessarily require the elimination of gas- and diesel-powered vehicles at the same time, says Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana and one-time presidential candidate offered up the insight during a U.S. House hearing Thursday, reports TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":158614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,10,13,12,9],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[118,140,302,150,151,123,127,147,133,131,153,142,155,299,158,132,129,125,124,297,121,137,139,148,128,291,278,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162133"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=162133"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=162133"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=162133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}