Amid ‘Mandate’ Fight, EDF Finds Battery EVs Not Needed For EPA Auto Rule

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is sharpening claims that EPA’s light- and medium-duty vehicle emissions proposal is flexible enough to allow multiple compliance strategies, flagging analysis that industry could even comply with the requirements without any battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales. The group’s analysis, styled as a rebuttal to auto manufacturers’ comments claiming EPA’s plan depends on a rosy assumption of vehicle electrification over the next decade, could also aid EPA in justifying its proposal as a performance-based standards approach...