GM backs setting tough emissions targets for 2030 By Reuters

(Reuters) – General Motors Co (NYSE:) said Tuesday it backed establishing tougher federal emissions standards to help ensure at least 50% of new vehicles sold by 2030 are zero-emission models.

The largest U.S. automaker and the Environmental Defense Fund released a series of joint recommendations to boost EVs as the Environmental Protection Agency develops proposed requirements from the 2027 model year through at least 2030. GM and EDF (EPA:) said the new EPA standards “should help to ensure at least 50% of new vehicles sold by 2030 are zero-emissions vehicles and consistent with eliminating tailpipe pollution from new passenger vehicles by 2035.”