{"id":4332,"date":"2025-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/u-s-nhtsa-proposes-fuel-economy-standards-rollback-to-34-5-mpg\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:30:50","slug":"u-s-nhtsa-proposes-fuel-economy-standards-rollback-to-34-5-mpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/news\/u-s-nhtsa-proposes-fuel-economy-standards-rol-85352491.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. NHTSA Proposes Fuel Economy Standards Rollback To ~34.5 MPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>\u2022 The Trump administration&#8217;s NHTSA unveiled a proposed rollback to the current CAFE timeline, requiring a <strong>34.5\u202fmiles per gallon fleet average by model year 2031<\/strong> instead of the previous <strong>50.4\u202fMPG target<\/strong> established under the prior administration.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 NHTSA&#8217;s own analysis shows this change could <strong>cut upfront vehicle costs by roughly $930<\/strong> for consumers but <strong>increase total U.S. gasoline consumption by ~100\u202fbillion gallons through 2050<\/strong> and boost <strong>CO\u2082 emissions by about 5%<\/strong> compared with the previous rule.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 The proposal also includes modifications to CAFE&#8217;s credit trading system and reflects broader policy efforts to ease regulatory burdens on automakers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"news-750-422\" height=\"422\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sup.szwyxkj1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/post-img\/p2025121515204221883.png\" title=\"news-750-422\" width=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Impact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On automakers:<\/strong><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Traditional OEMs (Ford, GM, Stellantis) benefit from reduced compliance pressure and lower projected costs through 2031, easing the transition burden to higher efficiency and EV fleets. Reuters<\/p>\n<p><strong>On consumers\/market:<\/strong><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 New vehicles could be <strong>cheaper to buy<\/strong> due to lower efficiency compliance costs. Reuters<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 However, <strong>owners may pay more at the pump over time<\/strong> because of increased fuel consumption and could face higher total cost of ownership.<\/p>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 The Trump administration&#8217;s NHTSA unveiled a proposed rollback to the current CAFE timeline, requiring a 34.5\u202fmiles per gallon fleet average by model year 2031 instead of the previous 50.4\u202fMPG target established under the prior administration.\u00a0 \u2022 NHTSA&#8217;s own analysis shows this change could cut upfront vehicle costs by roughly $930 for consumers but increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newslist-136510-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8978,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions\/8978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superpdr.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}