WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The Trump administration said Wednesday it ​is rescinding a ‌rule that incentivized automakers ⁠to produce electric ⁠vehicles to meet ‌fuel ‌economy requirements by overstating energy ​savings.

Environmentalists have ‌long criticized the Energy Department rules ​for ​assigning ‌unrealistically high fuel-economy values to electric vehicles, which ⁠are then figured ⁠into fleetwide averages under federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy ⁠rules.

The ‌Energy Department said ‌following an appeals ⁠court decision in September it will remove the provision known as the fuel content ​factor from its calculations and plans to ​propose additional ‌revisions.