Biden administration to relax electric vehicle mandate deadlines through the end of the decade

The Biden administration is reportedly easing its tailpipe emissions standards that would have required 66% of vehicles sold to be electric by 2030.

The New York Times reports that President Joe Biden still plans to move forward with the mandates but at a slower pace.

The EPA is still finalizing the rules, but according to the Times, auto manufacturers will be required to increase the percentage of electric vehicles they sell more gradually through 2030, and the mandates would sharply rise thereafter.

Automakers had rapidly transitioned their lines to electric, but dealerships began to rebel when the pace of sales were making it difficult to move the volumes of EVs the manufacturers were sending them.

In November, 4,000 dealerships wrote Biden to ask him to slow the mandates as the cars were “stacking up on their lots,” they said. The list has since grown to nearly 4,700.