Republican lawmakers are urging federal regulators to crack down on automakers’ claims that electric vehicles are “zero-emission vehicles.”
In a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan this week, four GOP senators pointed to EVs’ life-cycle emissions and their tires’ higher production of harmful particulate matter in calling for new standards that would ensure that EVs are not “deceptively advertised as zero-emission vehicles to American consumers.”
The missive from Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) is the latest effort by congressional Republicans to highlight EVs’ shortcomings as the Biden administration has made them an integral part of its decarbonization strategy.
“The Biden-Harris administration’s heavy-handed push for EVs conveniently ignores the environmental impacts these vehicles have,” the senators wrote. “The lifecycle of an EV is far from zero-emission.”
