Simon says, ban new gas-powered vehicles
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Washington and Massachusetts will join California in banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035, as a result of trigger laws written to follow such guidance from CA officials.
☝️ First things first: California has a waiver from the federal government to set its own air quality rules, including ones that regulate emissions. Other states are allowed to opt-in to CA’s regulations – which are typically more stringent than national standards – but they can’t set any of their own.
🚘🔌 More deets… California’s regulation applies to all new cars, pickup trucks and SUVs, but doesn’t apply to sales of used gas-powered vehicles.
- It also establishes increasing annual thresholds for automakers’ EV sales, starting at 35% of all vehicles sold in 2026, and reaching 100% by 2035.
📸 The big picture: More than 5% of all new car sales nationwide were EVs over the first six months of this year, putting America past the tipping point for mass adoption, per a recent Bloomberg analysis. In California, that number is 16+%.
+Fun fact: Virginia has the same trigger law on the books as Washington and Massachusetts, but newly-elected Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) said he’s working on reversing it.
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