Remove federal electric-vehicle preferences

Project 2025 recommends reversing federal electric-vehicle preferences and resetting fuel-economy policy. Executive Order 14154 directed elimination of the EV mandate, while Public Law 119-21 ended specified vehicle tax credits.

Project 2025 said

Reduce proposed fuel economy levels. The Administration should consider returning to the minimum average fuel economy levels specified by Congress for model year 2020 vehicles: levels aimed at achieving a fleet-wide average of 35 miles per gallon.

Chapter: 19 · Department of Transportation
Author: Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Department: U.S. Department of Transportation
Printed page: 627–628
PDF page: 659–660
Last verified: August 16, 2026

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Compared with

Government did

Match: Strong Alignment

Unleashing American Energy: electric-vehicle policy directives

The order directed agencies to eliminate the electric-vehicle mandate, review vehicle standards, and consider removal of subsidies and other market distortions favoring electric vehicles.

Action type: Executive Order
Identifier: Executive Order 14154
Current status: Partially Implemented
In effect: Partly
Last verified: August 16, 2026

Why this match

The executive directive strongly aligns with the recommendation's regulatory objective, while separate legislation ended specified vehicle tax credits.

Additional government actions

Match: Strong Alignment

Public Law 119-21

The budget reconciliation law changed specified clean-energy tax provisions, Medicaid rules, and federal student-aid and repayment provisions, among many other subjects.

Why this match: The statute ended specified clean-vehicle tax credits, strongly aligning with the tax-preference component while not itself resolving vehicle regulations.

How this can change

Reversibility: Moderate

Presidential Rescission

A future President may rescind the order; agencies may revise vehicle regulations through lawful process; Congress controls statutory tax credits.

Authority: Congress · President · Agency · Courts · States

Reversibility: Difficult

Congressional Repeal Or Amendment

Restoring or redesigning the terminated federal vehicle tax credits generally requires Congress and presidential signature or a veto override; the Treasury Department and IRS administer resulting law.

Authority: Congress · President · Agency · Courts · States

Legislative votes

Senate roll call 372

119th Congress · July 1, 2025 · Passed 51–50, with the Vice President voting yea

On Passage of H.R. 1, as amended

House roll call 190

119th Congress · July 3, 2025 · Passed 218–214

On motion that the House concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1

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