President Trump ENDS Biden’s EV Mandate in Major Move to Slash Car Prices

President Trump says he has approved new fuel economy standards aimed at rolling back Biden-era rules that his administration has characterized as an EV mandate.

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President Trump says he has approved new fuel economy standards aimed at rolling back Biden-era rules that his administration has characterized as an EV mandate.

Trump says the new standards will give automakers more flexibility and lower vehicle prices, arguing Americans were being pushed toward cars they didn’t want.

The president says the shift comes alongside $100 billion in planned investment in American auto manufacturing, declaring, “The Plants are coming back, and Jobs are returning.”

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Since the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards were established in 1975, they have been periodically updated, typically to make vehicles more efficient. Under former President Joe Biden’s standards, automakers would have had to increase the fuel efficiency of their passenger cars and light trucks to roughly 50 miles per gallon by 2031. The stricter standards were designed to incentivize electric vehicle production and sales in the U.S.

Trump presented the policy change as a boon for both automakers and consumers, though the final standards have not yet been publicly detailed…

The regulatory change would fulfill a campaign promise from Trump to rescind policies that encouraged or incentivized electric vehicles.

It is unclear what the final fuel economy standards will be, although Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy previously said that they would be sharply lower than the Biden-era policies.

Weaker fuel economy standards mean that automakers can produce more pickup trucks and SUVs, which are much more profitable than smaller cars but have worse gas mileage. Electric vehicles also become much less attractive to automakers, although some companies, like General Motors, have said that they will still make them.

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BIG DAY FOR AMERICAN AUTO WORKERS AND CAR BUYERS! I have just approved new Fuel Economy Standards that TERMINATE Sleepy Joe Biden and Pete Boot-EDGE-EDGE’s ridiculous EV Mandate. The Dumocrats cost our Great Auto Manufacturers $Billions, forced Americans into cars they never wanted, and wasted Billions on Chargers that were never built.

These new Standards will take the waste out of building cars in America. That means LOWER PRICES, saving families thousands on a new, beautiful, and safe car — Far better than the Environmental Monsters that we were building heretofore. Every Manufacturer, from General Motors to Ford to Stellantis, has called me wanting to build here, and now they can!

Under my Administration, over 100 $Billion is being invested in American Autos, and that’s just the beginning. The Plants are coming back, and Jobs are returning, to Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, and all over our Country. Thank you to our Great Secretaries of Transportation and Commerce, Sean Duffy and Howard Lutnick. AMERICA IS BACK. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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A major victory for America’s auto workers is COMING MONDAY

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— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) September 26, 2026

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Trump also ended Biden’s electric vehicle tax credits last year in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Ford CEO Jim Farley hailed Trump’s plan last year to lower fuel standards as a “victory for affordability and common sense.”

“As the president said, we will be able to offer more affordability on our popular models, and we’ll be able to launch new vehicles built in America that are more affordable because of this rule change,” he told “Fox & Friends” in December.

Trump also signed a trio of congressional resolutions in June ending California’s restrictive rules for diesel engines and mandates on elective vehicle sales, with Trump celebrating that his signature “will kill the California mandates forever.”

“Under the previous administration, the federal government gave left-wing radicals in California dictatorial powers to control the future of the entire car industry all over the country, all over the world, actually,” Trump said before signing the resolutions.

“They approved Governor Gavin ‘Newscum’s’ ridiculous plan to impose a 100% ban on all new gas-powered cars within a very short period of time,” he said. “Think of this, you can’t buy any other car except an electric powered car, and in California they have blackouts and brownouts. They don’t have enough electricity right now.”

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