After advocating for the Trump administration to relax former President Barack Obama’s stringent fuel-economy mandates, several major automakers have rebuked the administration’s proposed rule for freezing the mandate at model-year 2020.
Now, the automakers are siding with California, voluntarily agreeing to increase their average fuel economy of their fleets to about 50 miles per gallon by 2026.
But what’s been lost
in the administration’s tussle with California and the…
