Audrey LaForest

In a court filing, U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock cited "the need to consider fully the implications" of the Supreme Court's decision Thursday in West Virginia vs. EPA.

Steven Cliff spoke Wednesday from his office at the U.S. Department of Transportation in his first interview with since being sworn in as the new NHTSA administrator.

While major automakers in the U.S. are going along with, or even aspiring to exceed, President Joe Biden's 2030 zero-emission vehicle target, they've also warned that meeting the aggressive goal will require more support.

NHTSA launched the formal safety probe in February after receiving 278 reports alleging inadvertent activation of the automatic emergency braking system in 2018-19 Honda Accords and Honda CR-V compact crossovers.

Electric vehicle stakeholders must figure out how to build a supply chain for tomorrow, with access to raw materials and rigorous environmental and labor standards.

The action comes after Rep. Jan Schakowsky urged the U.S. Government Accountability Office to examine "federal agencies' efforts to ensure consumers' right to repair" with respect to light-duty cars and trucks.

The NHTSA said it received reports of nearly 400 crashes involving driver-assist systems and 130 crashes involving fully automated vehicles since it began collecting the data last June.

As automakers aim to electrify more, or all, of their new-vehicle lineups, Michael Berube said 500,000 EV charging stations and $7.5 billion is only the beginning.

EVs are the "vehicle of the future," Dingell said, but it's going to take partnerships between the public and private sectors, including policies to address affordability.

The data release comes after NHTSA in June 2021 issued an order requiring vehicle, equipment and software manufacturers of ADAS and fully automated vehicles to report crashes where the system was engaged at least 30 seconds before the crash.

The 2.9 million-vehicle recall covers certain 2013-19 Escapes, 2013-18 C-Maxes, 2013-16 Fusions, 2013-21 Transit Connects and 2015-18 Edges. Ford is aware of six reports alleging property damage and 1,630 warranty reports.

A provision in the $1 trillion infrastructure law orders NHTSA to issue a final rule by November 2024 that requires new vehicles to be equipped with an advanced drunken- and impaired-driving prevention technology.

NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation said it is upgrading the investigation to an engineering analysis to "extend the existing crash analysis."

The proposal comes as the federal government moves forward on a plan to build a nationwide network of 500,000 EV charging stations by 2030 with funding from the $1 trillion infrastructure law signed by President Joe Biden in November.

The action comes after a group of 17 Republican attorneys general last month sued the EPA over its decision to reissue a waiver allowing California to set its own auto tailpipe rules and zero-emission vehicle mandates that are more stringent than federal standards.