Donald Trump orders end of ‘electric vehicle mandate’, subsidies

US President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to “eliminate the electric vehicle mandate” – his attempt to repeal auto pollution rules and fuel economy standards that he says unfairly limit consumer choice.

The directive, included in a broad energy-focused executive power orderalso calls on regulators to consider “eliminating unfair subsidies and other ill-conceived government-imposed market distortions that favor EVs over other technologies and effectively mandate their purchase.”