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Automakers signal support for Biden’s electric-vehicle vision Jessica Wehrman © Provided by Roll Call A detail of the front of the new all-electric Volkswagen ID.4 on display last month in California. Just weeks into Joe Biden’s presidency, some of the same automobile companies that once pushed Donald Trump to loosen Obama-era fuel economy standards are now lining up to embrace the idea of an emissions-free future. GM announced Jan. 28 that it plans to be carbon neutral by 2040 and has “an aspiration” to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035. And last week the Coalition for Sustainable Automotive Regulation, a group of automobile manufacturers and dealer groups including Mazda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Toyota and National Automobile Dealers Association announced it will drop its support for the Trump administration’s rollback of greenhouse gas emissions regulations. 

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