WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald

Trump on Monday took aim at electric vehicles, revoking a 2021

executive order signed by his predecessor Joe Biden that sought

to ensure half of all new vehicles sold in the United States by

2030 were electric.

Biden's 50% target, which was not legally binding, had won

the support of U.S. and foreign automakers.

Trump said in an executive order he was halting distribution

of unspent government funds for vehicle charging stations from a

$5 billion fund, called for ending a waiver for states to adopt

zero emission vehicle rules by 2035 and said his administration

would consider ending EV tax credits.

Trump plans to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to

reconsider rules mandating more stringent emissions rules that

would require automakers to sell between 30% to 56% EVs by 2032

in order to comply with federal emissions rules, as well as

parallel rules issued by the U.S. Transportation Department.

Trump said in his order on Monday he was seek the repeal of

a waiver granted to California in December by the EPA allowing

the state to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035.

That rule has been adopted by 11 other states.

Trump said the EPA should terminate "where appropriate,

state emissions waivers that function to limit sales of

gasoline-powered automobiles."

His order said Trump's administration should consider "the

elimination of unfair subsidies and other ill-conceived

government-imposed market distortions that favor EVs over other

technologies and effectively mandate their purchase."

Trump said previously he could take other actions on EVs,

including seeking to repeal the $7,500 consumer tax credit for

electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform

legislation.

Trump campaigned on ending Biden's "EV mandate," without

spelling out specific targeted policies. Biden repeatedly

refused to endorse setting a date to end the sale of internal

combustion engines.

Trump promised while campaigning to boost U.S. oil

production, even as it has hit record highs, and to roll back

Biden's clean-energy initiatives, which also include subsidies

for wind and solar power and the mass production of hydrogen.