California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

California regulators on Thursday will vote to put in place a sweeping plan to restrict and ultimately ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars, state officials said, a move that the state’s governor described as the beginning of the end for the internal combustion engine.

The new policy, detailed Wednesday morning in a news conference, is widely expected to accelerate the global transition toward electric vehicles. Not only is California the largest auto market in the United States, but more than a dozen other states typically follow California’s lead when setting their own auto emissions standards.

If those states follow through, and most are expected to adopt similar rules, the restrictions would apply to about a third of the United States auto market.

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The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, will require that all new cars sold in the state by 2035 be free of greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide. The rule also sets interim targets, requiring that 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold by 2026 produce zero emissions. That requirement climbs to 68 percent by 2030.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/california-to-ban-the-sale-of-new-gasoline-cars/ar-AA113b2c

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. This will result in a lot of people no longer being able to afford a car.

[NNadir]

2. Whence is the electricity for this adventure to come? Their grid is already on life support.

When I lived in California in the 1970's and 1980's they were always passing these "by such and such" date bills.

They have uniformly been a disaster. Engineering is not accomplished by legislation.