New US emissions rules mean more plug-in hybrid cars are on the way. The electric vehicle tech is clean—but has a catch.
Last week, the Biden administration made it official: American cars are really going electric. The US Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule, long in the works, that will require automakers selling in the United States to dramatically boost the number of battery-powered vehicles sold this decade, putting a serious dent in the country’s carbon emissions in the process. By 2032, more than half of new cars sold must be electric.
This means less work, short-term, an exciting prospect for an industry that has to rejigger both how it builds its cars and how it sources the materials that will make their batteries go in the next few decades, as they move towards electrics. “Now, automakers have a few more years to finalize their full electric portfolio,” says Gil Tal, who directs the Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center at UC Davis.
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