Trump wipes out the EV car mandate — cars don’t have to try to change the weather
By Jo Nova
Just like that — Trump undoes years of bureaucratic tape
Green groups have condemned it, so we know it must be good for Americans, families, businesses.
Donald Trump says he’s dropped the EV Mandate. The Guardian says there was no mandate, but that’s only because the mandate was hidden in a kind of monster red-tape Octopus. Manufacturers were forced to balance their whole fleet’s emissions each year. That meant if their customers didn’t want to buy enough low emission EV’s the manufacturer would have to discount the EV’s and charge artificially more for the cars everyone really wanted in order to create the Soviet-style sales goal.
This would mean that people buying a petrol or diesel car would be subsidizing a driver who bought an EV. Presumably the rich would get whatever car they wanted while the rural poor would have to pay more to get a long distance car. If a company sold too many high emission cars (because that’s what the customers wanted) it would have to buy credits on a trading market (which subsidizes the EVs).
Australia has recently copied this bureaucratic bomb with the NVES (New Vehicle Emissions Standards). Across Europe this octopus has helped to subsidize Chinese made EV’s at the expense of European car manufacturers. It’s a great moment in red-sabotage, where a government forces the people to help destroy local industry and jobs. Call it an anti-tariff?
Trump administration to slash clean car rules aimed at cutting climate emissions
https://joannenova.com.au/2026/09/trump-wipes-out-the-ev-car-mandate-cars-dont-have-to-try-to-change-the-weather/
