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The Alliance for Automotive Innovation said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) proposal was unreasonable and requested significant revisions.

The industry group argued the plan would boost average vehicle prices by $3,000 by 2032 because of penalties automakers would face for not being in compliance, adding the figure "exceeds reason and will increase costs to the American consumer with absolutely no environmental or fuel savings benefits."

NHTSA in July proposed boosting requirements by 2% per year for passenger cars and 4% per year for pickup trucks and SUVs from 2027 through 2032, resulting in a fleet-wide average fuel efficiency of 58 miles (93 km) per gallon.

The American Automotive Policy Council, a group representing the Detroit Three automakers, separately on Monday urged NHTSA to halve its proposed fuel economy increases to 2% annually for trucks, saying the proposal "would disproportionately impact the truck fleet."

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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“exceeds reason and will increase costs to the American consumer with absolutely no environmental or fuel savings benefits.”

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[–] assembly@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I would love to see how they justify those claims.

[–] Dangdoggo@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From what I understand they are saying that they will not be complying with the regulations and so the cost of the fees for failing to comply will be pushed onto the consumer with no environmental or fuel saving benefits.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which in comparison, will make EVs more affordable.

It's almost like the intention of the bill is to price gas vehicles out, and encourage the legacy auto industry to, well, innovate.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It’s almost like the intention of the bill is to price gas vehicles out,

Or possibly stop the auto industry from privatizing the profits of selling gas vehicles and socializing the losses of climate and health concerns to everyone else.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If prices could be increased by 3k, they already would have been increased by 3k. Companies aren't just waiting around for the government to tell them to increase prices.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Saving humanity from destroying itself exceeds reason!