Tesla urged the EPA under Pres. Trump to preserve a key climate finding

The EV automaker also asked the environmental agency to preserve tailpipe emissions rules requiring over 50% of US autos be electric by 2032.

Other major automakers call the tailpipe emissions rules “not achievable.”

Tesla Inc. urged US environmental regulators to maintain ambitious tailpipe emissions standards that were put in place to push the industry to sell electric vehicles in larger numbers.

Regulations finalized under President Joe Biden that assumed more than 50 percent of the US auto market would be composed of fully electric models by 2032 “are a lawful exercise of authority Congress provided to EPA to regulate greenhouse gases from new motor vehicles,” Tesla said in a regulatory filing posted online by

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