It is no secret that at some point in our history, the use of fossil fuels, especially oil, will end. This will happen mainly due to the lack of these resources or due to the impacts of burning these fuels on the environment.
Today, Wednesday (12), the United States Environmental Protection Agency will announce new standards for exhaust gas emissions. The expectation is that, with this announcement, the era of gasoline-powered cars will begin to end.
In this sense, the idea behind these new standards is to force the automobile industry to gradually eliminate the sale of cars that use gasoline.
This measure will benefit companies that produce electric cars, as the trend is for consumption of this type of vehicle to increase.
How will these new standards work, anyway?
What we know so far is that these new Environmental Protection Agency rules will set an emissions cap on the total number of new cars each industry sells each year.
In light of this, it would be guaranteed that by 2032 two-thirds of vehicles sold in the United States will be electric. Today’s announcement, therefore, provides all the details of this initiative.
Given this scenario, automakers have already started to increase sales of electric cars. However, these vehicles still represent a small portion of the US automobile market.
In January of this year, only 7% of cars sold in the United States were electric (66,400 electric cars and 14,000 hybrids). However, in that same month, 950,000 brand-new light vehicles left the showrooms.
The current president of the United States, Joe Biden, has set a goal for his government: that the sale of electric vehicles increases from 7% to 70% from now on.
After taking office as president, Biden signed an executive order to ensure that half of all new car sales will be CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions-free by 2030. If that happens, the environment and life on Earth will thank you.
