Trump Says He Approved New Fuel Economy Standards

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he had approved new fuel-economy standards intended to replace requirements adopted under former President Joe Biden, claiming the change would lower vehicle prices and save families thousands of dollars. The administration had not released the standards’ details or an accompanying final rule when Trump made the announcement, leaving the policy’s targets and timing unclear. In a post on Truth Social, Trump described the Biden-era rules as an electric-vehicle mandate and said the new standards would reduce the cost of building cars in the United States. He also claimed that manufacturers would be able to produce vehicles consumers want at lower prices. The post did not provide figures or evidence establishing that the newly announced standards would produce those savings. The standards concern Corporate Average Fuel Economy requirements, which set average fuel-efficiency targets across the cars and light trucks an automaker sells. They do not require consumers to buy electric vehicles, despite Trump and allies’ use of the term EV mandate to describe the Biden-era requirements.