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.

(Reporting by David ​Shepardson)