Trump Can't Kill The Electric Car
Other forces will keep pushing fuel efficiency higher.
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Come January, President-elect Donald Trump will be ferried around in a very thirsty set of wheels: The Presidential Limousine, nicknamed "The Beast," reportedly gets less than 4 miles to the gallon, on average.
What's more, Trump's fossil-forward energy approach means he should be open to letting us, the little people, tool around in less-efficient vehicles, too. His administration is widely expected to take the pressure off automakers to roughly double the fuel efficiency of their vehicles by 2025, a plan agreed to under President Barack Obama in 2011. Indeed, the nation's biggest auto-trade group has asked that Trump roll back the targets.