Carmakers’ EV Pledge Gives Burned Environmentalists Deja Vu
- Climate activists question voluntary pledges from automakers
- Companies point to billions they’ve already pledged to spend
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The chief executives of the world’s biggest automakers gathered with President Barack Obama at the Washington Convention Center in 2011 to announce they had agreed to double the average fuel economy of their vehicles to 54.5 miles per gallon -- the largest increase in history.
Five years later, after Donald Trump was elected, the companies asked the president-elect to roll back the standards. He did.