A pledge today from US President Joe Biden’s Administration to move the auto market towards electric vehicles and hybrids faster ctv’s Washington bureau chief Joy malbin has more on this move hi Joy hey Sandy well it’s pretty ambitious these new rules by the US Environmental Protection Agency on tailpipe pollution
Would transform the US Auto industry and cut billions of Planet heating carbon emissions over the next three decades by 32 the majority of new vehicle sales in the US will be electric or hybrids Canada set its goal to move away from gas powered cars to EVs and hybrids by
2035 in the US there was a big tug of war with car makers to meet these new mandates because sales of electric vehicles haven’t been doing all that well President Joe Biden who is campaigning hard for a second term has made electric vehicles Central to his strategy to confront global warming
Announcing a big Federal investment with a tech company Intel a domestic chip manufacturer in Arizona in a state that Biden must win it’s all part of my investing in America agenda and ignited a manufacturing boom in America a clean energy boom a jobs boom all here in
America finally but remember Biden is up against Republican Donald Trump who wants his old job back Trump has railed against electric cars saying they will kill the American Auto industry and that Biden is somehow selling out to China telling voters that Biden’s clean energy agenda will simply lead to lost jobs
It’s going to be a very long election campaign Sandy okay thanks Joy
Authorities are investigating staff at an elite hospital for attempting to access the Princess of Wales’ medical records. Joy Malbon reports.
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