Proposed Clean Car Rules Expected to Increase US Electricity Demand by Just 1.3%
A story in S&P Global draws heavily on the insights of Senior Fellow Joshua Linn regarding the Biden administration's new transportation proposal.
"However, Biden on Aug. 5 also issued an executive order calling for all-electric cars to make up 50% of new sales in the country by 2030. He was joined at the White House by representatives from Detroit's three leading carmakers — General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis NV — who pledged to meet that goal.
In the meantime, California's clean car rules are more likely to drive widespread electric-vehicle adoption and impact the grid more dramatically compared to federal tailpipe standards, said Joshua Linn, a senior fellow at the independent research organization Resources for the Future...."
