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US aims for electric-car revolution — will it work?

The Environmental Protection Agency has released draft regulations that set the stage for a huge transition to electric vehicles.
  1. Jeff Tollefson
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed a landmark set of pollution regulations that could spark an electric-vehicle revolution and drive down greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Nature 616, 424 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01255-y

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  • Clarification 14 April 2023: Electric vehicles could account for 50% of new US passenger vehicle sales – not sales of all vehicles – by 2030, according to a January study.

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