Earth Day is coming very soon on April 22. So how does the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) choose to celebrate it and give back to Mother Earth? According to Fisker, an American electric vehicle car maker based in Manhattan Beach, CA, the EPA is planning to propose new limits on tailpipe emissions, which would require up to 67% of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be all electric vehicles by 2032, aiming to seriously reduce tailpipe emissions and adopt a cleaner, alternative electric vehicle option. (For context, New Jersey is planning on stopping all sales on gasoline cars by 2025 in order to better adapt to a cleaner and more sustainable future.)
In addition, some of the proposed limits are projecting that electric vehicles, such as the all-electric Fisker Ocean, will account for 54-60% of all the new vehicles sold in the United States by the year of 2030, and will also represent between 64-67% of all new vehicles by the year of 2032. To help with the goal, Fisker said in an interview that the annual goal of 2027 is to sell one million vehicles worldwide. An article by Reuters said that the proposal might result in 50% of all vehicles sold in the United States being completely electric or hybrid, which is in line with a goal outlined by President Joe Biden in 2021. Of course, automakers have raised concerns that the administration would require them to spend huge amounts of money to improve the efficiency of internal combustion vehicles that will be phased out in the next decade.
The proposed limits by the EPA are considered the most aggressive climate regulation to date in the United States. It comes with unfortunate consequences for traditional automakers, who heavily rely on selling vehicles with internal combustion engines, as they might have to find a new way to adapt to the ever-changing environment. However, existing electric vehicle makers like Fiskers will benefit from the new law as the laws will allow the demand for electric vehicles to skyrocket. Data from the Kelley Blue Book, a vehicle valuation and automatic research company, shows that 5.8% of cars sold in 2022 were electric, a rise from 3.2% of cars in 2021. Of course, the manufacturing and sale of electric cars is important as it is the responsibility of our current generation to provide a safe and clean environment for future generations, by thinking up and putting into action innovative new ways to save our planet and make it more eco-friendly.
