El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, acaba de reducir dr\u00e1sticamente las normas de eficiencia de combustible. Ahora s\u00f3lo se exige que aumenten en 1,5% cada a\u00f1o hasta el a\u00f1o modelo 2026, en lugar de los 5% anuales introducidos en 2012 por el Gobierno de Obama.<\/p>\n
Hoy se ha publicado la nueva normativa SAFE (Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles), formulada por la Administraci\u00f3n Nacional de Seguridad del Tr\u00e1fico en Carretera (NHTSA) del Departamento de Transporte de Estados Unidos y la Agencia de Protecci\u00f3n Medioambiental (EPA) estadounidense. Estas normativas, considerablemente m\u00e1s laxas, significan que uno de los mayores esfuerzos de EE.UU. para proteger la contaminaci\u00f3n atmosf\u00e9rica, el cambio clim\u00e1tico y reducir la dependencia estadounidense de los combustibles f\u00f3siles quedar\u00e1 obsoleto incluso antes de haber entrado en vigor.<\/p>\n
Huelga decir que las nuevas leyes, m\u00e1s laxas, equivalen a toneladas m\u00e1s de producci\u00f3n de CO2 del pa\u00eds que ya tiene una de las mayores huellas de CO2 del mundo, tanto per c\u00e1pita como en su conjunto. No es sorprendente que la nueva normativa haya suscitado duras cr\u00edticas en todo el mundo.<\/p>\n
Los nuevos objetivos se traducen para los conductores en 40 mpg o 5,88 litros\/100 km. Convertido a los l\u00edmites de la UE basados en el CO2, el nuevo objetivo estadounidense corresponde a unas emisiones de CO2 de m\u00e1s de 136 gramos por kil\u00f3metro. La media en la UE -tambi\u00e9n uno de los mayores emisores de CO2 del mundo- es de 95 gramos o 4,1 litros de gasolina por kil\u00f3metro.<\/p>\n
Con la nueva normativa, el est\u00e1ndar estadounidense ser\u00e1 inferior al de la Uni\u00f3n Europea, China, India, Jap\u00f3n y Corea del Sur. De cara a los mercados internacionales, esto puede suponer un reto para la industria automovil\u00edstica estadounidense. Mientras que otros fabricantes de autom\u00f3viles internacionales se ven empujados a desarrollar veh\u00edculos de alta eficiencia y baja contaminaci\u00f3n, sus hom\u00f3logos estadounidenses podr\u00e1n centrarse en veh\u00edculos de combustibles f\u00f3siles cada vez m\u00e1s obsoletos.<\/p>\n
El gobierno de Trump justifica la medida diciendo que los coches con las tecnolog\u00edas de ahorro de combustible necesarias ser\u00edan cada vez m\u00e1s caros. \"Hoy, el presidente Trump cumple la promesa que hizo a los trabajadores del sector del autom\u00f3vil hace tres a\u00f1os de reactivar la industria automovil\u00edstica estadounidense revisando las costosas y cada vez m\u00e1s inalcanzables normas de ahorro de combustible y emisiones de CO2 de los coches, y eso es exactamente lo que est\u00e1 consiguiendo la norma para veh\u00edculos m\u00e1s seguros, asequibles y eficientes en el consumo de combustible\", afirma la secretaria de Transporte, Elaine Chao.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Analysts surveyed by the New York Times<\/em> have said that the new consumption standard will bring more uncertainty to the industry in the long term. In fact, it seems that the Trump administration itself was hindered by delays and difficulties to reduce the target in a way that would adhere to scientific consensus and be legally defensible.<\/p>\n According to the New York Times<\/em>, an internal economic analysis from the Trump government itself concluded that the rule would harm consumers more than helping them. Although the new target would lower the prices of new cars and light trucks by about $1,000, it would also increase the amount that consumers would pay for fuel by about $1,400.<\/p>\n In July last year, VW, BMW, Ford and Honda<\/a> signed a framework agreement with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to reduce emissions despite the Trump government’s intended disassembly of planned fuel efficiency targets. The planned emissions requirements were more stringent than the Trump administration rewrite but looser than the Obama-era rules. At the same time, even carmakers who were in favour of reducing the targets set in 2012 also pleaded that the administration does not reduce these too drastically, because it is likely to embroil the government in endless legal battles and leave carmakers with ongoing uncertainty.<\/p>\n Indeed, Ann Carlson, a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, said the legal fight will be “one of the hardest fought, in part because it\u2019s the most significant”. She also suggested that the big beneficiaries are really just the oil companies.<\/p>\n Oil prices have plummeted recently in both a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia as well as drastically reduced usage during the Covid19 pandemic. With these prices, the already deeply in-debt US American shale oil industry is pushed way below cost price. It would not be far fetched, to think that Trump’s aim is more to save American oil companies currently feeling the squeeze.<\/p>\n With US energy policy precariously resting on the fragile existence of the shale oil industry, Trump’s new regulations would further weaken consumer options and increase fossil fuel dependence in a highly unstable oil market environment.<\/p>\n Update 7 April 2020:<\/strong> Reuters<\/em> reported that this week, Swedish vehicle-maker Volvo wants to join the manufacturers’ alliance with Volkswagen, BMW, Ford and Honda. Volvo confirmed they were in talks with California to reach a voluntary emissions agreement more stringent than those now implemented by the Trump government. Volvo said a deal with California \u201cwill serve as a national path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n epa.gov<\/a>, theguardian.com<\/a>, electrek.co<\/a>, nytimes.com<\/a>, reuters.com<\/a> (update Volvo)<\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233189,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130810\/revisions\/233189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}