Since the start of his second term in January 2025, Trump has moved to slow the expansion of electric mobility and ease regulations for vehicles with internal combustion engines. He relaxed emissions standards <\/a>for combustion-engine cars and allowed the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicle purchases to expire on 30 September 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump says he will save taxpayers the claimed $1.3 trillion by scrapping regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify and comply with federal greenhouse gas emission standards for motor vehicles. He also plans to dismantle the associated compliance, credit and reporting programmes that exclusively supported the \u2018vehicle GHG regulatory regime\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the EPA and Trump\u2019s administration said that climate policies had driven up the cost of new cars, making them unaffordable for many American families and limiting their ability to escape poverty or access essential services. They argued that affordable vehicle ownership forms a cornerstone of the American Dream and plays a key role in economic upward mobility in the United States. Through these measures, Trump says he intends to restore that dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n US car manufacturer Ford has welcomed Trump\u2019s measures. \u201cWe appreciate the work of President Trump and Administrator [Lee] Zeldin to address the imbalance between current emissions standards and customer choice,\u201d Ford Motor said in a statement sent to CNBC<\/em>. \u201cFord has consistently advocated for a single, stable national standard that aligns with customer choice, the market, societal benefit, and American job growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The industry association Alliance for Automotive Innovation, in turn, stated that the measures would ‘correct some of the unachievable emission regulations enacted under the previous administration.’ The American automotive industry, it added, remains focused on preserving vehicle choice for consumers, securing the sector\u2019s competitiveness, and continuing the long-term path towards emission reduction and cleaner vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the significantly looser emissions regulations now in place do not come as a surprise \u2013 more on that in a moment \u2013 but they only ease the pressure on US carmakers in the short term to bring as many electric vehicles as possible to the domestic market to meet what they had described as ‘unachievable emissions standards,’ or at least attempt to do so. Other major markets such as China and Europe continue to move steadily towards electric mobility. This balancing act could therefore place a greater burden on US manufacturers in the long term, as they must continue to advance both technologies at higher cost, while competitors can focus earlier on one direction. If they fail to invest, Ford, GM and others risk falling behind technologically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump\u2019s new measures had been anticipated for some time. In response, the three major US carmakers have proactively adjusted their strategies towards the ‘customer choice’ of powertrains now championed by the EPA and Trump. For example, Ford Motor Company announced in December <\/a>that it would write down $19.5 billion, primarily due to the realignment of its battery-electric vehicle business. General Motors followed in January <\/a>with an impairment charge of $6 billion. Last week<\/a>, Stellantis announced write-downs of approximately \u20ac22.2 billion, mainly related to its battery-electric vehicle business. According to the new strategy outlined by CEO Antonio Filosa, the company aims to become a ‘beacon of freedom of choice’ in line with Trump\u2019s vision\u2014offering more combustion engine vehicles and hybrids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n tagesschau.de<\/a>, cnbc.com<\/a>, epa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El t\u00e9rmino \u2018hallazgo de peligro\u2019 hace referencia a una determinaci\u00f3n de peligro que la Agencia de Protecci\u00f3n Medioambiental (EPA) emiti\u00f3 en 2009 durante el primer mandato de Barack Obama. En este hallazgo, la<\/p>","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":261994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9935],"tags":[3701,4422,7311,3457,2173,609],"class_list":["post-298444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bev","tag-co2","tag-donald-trump","tag-epa","tag-ice","tag-usa"],"acf":{"post_article-format":{"value":"standard","label":"Standard"},"post_categories":[9935],"post_tags":[609,7311,3457,4422,2173,3701],"post_thumbnail":261994,"post_thumbnail_listing":false,"post_teaser-text":"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revoked the 'Endangerment Finding' under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, which previously classified greenhouse gases as a threat to public health. This removes the legal basis for numerous climate protection regulations in the U.S., including emission standards for vehicles.","post_advert":false,"post_legacy":false,"post_original_image":false,"to_translate":true,"is_translated":true,"date_translation":"2026-02-13 09:40:09","post_id_net":"458660","slug_net":"trump-kippt-klimaschutz-grundlage-was-die-folgen-fuer-die-autobranche-sind","post_id_com":"298444","slug_com":"trump-overturns-climate-protection-foundation-what-it-means-for-the-automotive-industry","post_thumbnail-caption":"Donald Trump (archive image)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298444","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298453,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298444\/revisions\/298453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Halting regulations for combustion engine vehicles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Ford and industry association welcome the measures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Billion-dollar write-offs by the Big Three<\/h2>\n\n\n\n