Will the average car sold in the US in 2030 be smaller than the average car sold (in the US) in 2025
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Previously a clarification, now the title: Will the average car sold in the US in 2030 be smaller than the average car sold (in the US) in 2025
- “Carnegie Mellon University engineering professor Kate S. Whitefoot and University of Michigan engineering professor Steven J. Skerlos find that the footprint-based CAFE standard gives automakers an incentive to increase vehicle size and weight.
- They estimate that this increases vehicle size between 2% and 32%”
- https://www.mackinac.org/S2022-06#overview-and-history-of-cafe-standards
- As part of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill the fee for exceeding CAFE standard was changed to $0.00, which removes the supposed motivation to increase vehicle size.
- Will this cause vehicles to get smaller?
