EPA Updates Guidance For EV Mileage Range With Enforcement Focus

EPA has quietly issued new guidance for how battery electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers must test multiple drive modes -- if their vehicles offer them -- to determine a vehicle’s range measured in miles-per-gallon-equivalent (MPGe), a measure that is displayed on a sticker on the vehicle’s window and is part of the agency’s certification process. But the guidance is drawing criticism from some lawyers, who say in part that EPA is inappropriately seeking to subject the requirements to its rules governing...