US aims for electric-car revolution — will it work?
- ️Tollefson, Jeff
- ️Wed Apr 12 2023
- NEWS EXPLAINER
- 12 April 2023
- Clarification 14 April 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency has released draft regulations that set the stage for a huge transition to electric vehicles.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed a landmark set of pollution regulations that could spark an electric-vehicle revolution and drive down greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Nature 616, 424 (2023)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01255-y
Updates & Corrections
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Clarification 14 April 2023: Electric vehicles could account for 50% of new US passenger vehicle sales – not sales of all vehicles – by 2030, according to a January study.
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