California this week set forth a new policy to ban the sale of new gas-powered automobiles by 2035, with other restrictions and goals set for the decade between now and then. By 2026, for example, 35 percent of all new vehicles sold will need to produce zero emissions; by 2030 that number jumps to 68 percent.
The set of policies, which was created by the California Air Resources Board, builds on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2020 executive order that sought to ban gas-guzzlers by 2035 as well. Newsom said in an interview that the new rule is “one of the most significant steps to the elimination of the tailpipe as we know it.”
