According to an executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on the 8th, the U.S. government is planning to stop purchasing fuel vehicles for the federal fleet before 2035 to accelerate the transformation to low-carbon vehicles, Reuters reported.
It is reported that the U.S. government currently has more than 650000 vehicles and purchases about 50000 vehicles a year. Biden's executive order shows that all light mission vehicles purchased by the government will be zero emission vehicles before 2027. According to the plan, by 2030, the carbon emissions of U.S. federal government operations will be reduced by 65%. In the same year, the U.S. federal government will also seek to use only clean electricity and achieve zero emissions by 2050.
Data show that by the end of 2020, only 0.5% of the vehicles of the U.S. federal government were electric vehicles. In 2020, the United States spent $4.2 billion on vehicles, of which $730 million was spent on fuel.
However, some people in the industry still believe that the United States should promote the development of electric vehicles at a faster speed. Dan Becker, head of the environmental group safe climate transportation campaign center, said Biden should act faster and take too long to achieve this goal in 14 years.
Reuters reported that California had proposed a plan to ban the sale of light fuel vehicles before 2035, but this plan was rejected by Biden.
Biden proposed in August that by 2030, half of the new cars sold in the United States will be electric vehicles, including hybrid vehicles still equipped with fuel engines. Automobile manufacturers believe that to achieve this goal, we need strong government funding.
Biden is currently promoting a proposal in Congress to provide a tax exemption of $12500 for the purchase of electric vehicles, of which $4500 is planned to be directly provided to the purchase of electric vehicles made in the United States. But the proposal is facing opposition from foreign carmakers.
