For a number of years, the state of California--the land of fruits and nuts--has largely governed fuel economy standards for the USA. What California wanted, everyone else got, right or wrong.
The California Crazy-Train regs include a demand for "50 by '50": a 50 mile/gallon fleet average fuel economy by 2050. Since automakers cannot predict consumer activity--like preferring large crossovers and pickup trucks to teeny-tiny battery cars, and since internal-combustion economies are pushing the edge, they had asked for a rollback.
They'll get one. EPA will announce its own standards soon. California? Well, who knows?
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