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According to Cnbc, President Donald Trump said Saturday in a Truth Social post that he approved new fuel economy standards, reversing stricter policies adopted under former President Joe Biden.

The Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards have been periodically updated since they were established in 1975, generally to make vehicles more efficient. Under Biden-era rules, automakers would have needed to raise the fuel efficiency of passenger cars and light trucks to roughly 50 miles per gallon by 2031.

Those stricter standards were designed to encourage electric-vehicle production and sales in the United States, as well as hybrid technology. Trump said the new policy would benefit automakers and consumers, but the final standards have not been publicly detailed.

In his post, Trump said the standards would reduce the “waste out of building cars in America” and lead to lower prices for consumers. He also said manufacturers including General Motors, Ford and Stellantis had contacted him about building in the country.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy previously said the standards would be sharply lower than the Biden-era policies. Weaker requirements would allow automakers to produce more pickup trucks and SUVs, which are more profitable than smaller cars but have worse gas mileage. Such a change also makes electric vehicles less attractive to automakers, although some companies, including General Motors, have said they will continue making them.