The governors of twelve U.S. states wrote a letter to President Biden this week urging his administration to implement a federal ban on new gasoline vehicle sales by 2035.
The letter, which was reviewed by Reuters Wednesday, calls for Biden “to ensure that all new passenger cars and light-duty trucks sold are zero-emission no later than 2035 with significant milestones along the way to monitor progress.”
In addition to calling for a ban on new gasoline vehicle sales, the letter urged the current administration to implement new federal incentives to help speed up the rate of adoption for medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles. The governors want to work toward ensuring 100 percent of medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicle sales are zero-emission by 2045. This could help the administration achieve its self-set goal of replacing the entire federal vehicle fleet with EVs – which consists of a large number of medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
The letter was signed by the governors of the following twelve U.S. states:
- California
- New York
- Massachusetts
- North Carolina
- Connecticut
- Hawaii
- Maine
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- Oregon
- Washington State
- Rhode Island
The letter also calls for the Biden Administration to provide “substantial” funding to states for new charging and EV infrastructure and do away with manufacturer-based limits on EV tax credits. Buyers of General Motors EVs can no longer receive a federal tax incentive for the vehicle purchase after the automaker ran through the 200,000-vehicle limit back in 2019.
Some states are already looking at implementing their own bans on the sale of new internal combustion engine vehicles, including California and Massachusetts, which are looking to phase them out by 2035. Washington is also looking at banning the sale of new ICE vehicles by as early as 2030.
With politicians beginning to take aim at ICE vehicles, companies like GM are ramping up their EV development efforts dramatically. Roughly 40 percent of GM’s U.S. product portfolio will be electric by the end of 2025 and the automaker may phase out ICE vehicles entirely by 2035. The automaker will offer EVs under all of its brands in the U.S. and says its EV offerings will span a wide range of price points and use purposes.
We’ll be following GM’s electric transition very closely in the coming weeks, months and years, so be sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more General Motors electric vehicle news and ongoing General Motors news coverage.
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In other words, states that doesn’t contribute anything significant…. but this is good, I say that because the voters in these states know who the bums are and get them outta office.
You’re right, California and New York don’t contribute anything significant. They only have two of the largest economies in the country, and if California were a separate country, it would have one of the largest economies in the world. By the way, Trump lost a fair election.
They also have the highest debit, crime, failing education and wealth gaps. Thank goodness for the Electoral College and yes I’m an east coast resident who cares less about each parties extreme agendas.
California is 17th in the country (1st being worst), in regards to crime rate per capita, while New York is among the ten lowest crime rates in the country. I could dig deeper to disprove your statements. Do you really want me to?
You can, also explain the wealth gaps, poverty, bad education amongst the lower class, lack of business investments and jobs towards HS or 2 year degree graduates. Let’s face it, only those 2 states think things are going thier way.
I mean I can, it would just embarrass you even more with how incorrect your statements have been. I won’t, because this is still ultimately an automotive site, not a political one, and the issues you bring up aren’t automotive related. Also, you’re so delusional, it would be fruitless anyway. Bye, Q.
Again, can you answer the question without going to name-calling since the lefts claim “Hi IQ”, “ultimate intelligence” “we’re going to Mars watching Big Bang Theory” and all that, surely you got the answers.. No better then the extreme right..
Lack of business investment?
(scratches his head)
Seattle, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Boston Medical, N.C. Golden Triangle.
Because you have nothing. It is widely known how screwed up both those states are. Please enlighten us…
Quick google search shows them among the best in each those categories. If he wants to back up his outlandish, original statement, I’ll wait. Since he made the first claim, the burden of proof falls on him. But we both know he will say that Google is biased and all that bull.
Define nothing, also you too must be on Musk’s suicide mission to Mars to make such statements.
A start would be low flat tax business and have incentives that incentives jobs lower income equally because not everyone can go or want to go to Yale or be Bill Gates, but that don’t mean they have to be broke.
Definition of nothing: zilch, nada. As for the rest of your statement, Musk is an idiot, and the rest is incoherent rambling (grammar and punctuation matter). Let me know when you can back up your bull, Q.
I see no counter argument from your arrogance about how to help the people in NY and CA, their hypocrisy reflects this, they won’t help the poor and unfortunate in any meaningful way. Just to reassure your Mensa nomination I said I’m for neither idiotic extremes of each R/D party. So smarty, I guess you win 🤭..
California also leads the nation in number of homeless.
Yes, call your people home.
Shhhh. @guestt likes to make completely ignorant generalizations about states he’s likely never even visited so other like-minded ignorant people can like his posts! Look at all the likes he’s received! He’s the king of the mouth-breathers!!
Actually I flew to CA on a business trip. Nice weather, lotta homelessness with tents and R/Vs around San Jose International…
You’re not helping your argument. You’re exposing your blatant ignorance. Is there a homeless crisis in California? Yes, but it’s the same homeless crisis that affects the rest of the nation. We just don’t bus our homeless to another states like so many others have to California (yes, that’s a real thing). The saying: “As California goes, so goes the nation.” continues to be accurate. This state usually feels the affects of various social and environmental issues first due to it’s massive size and population. It’s only a matter of time before every other state (blue & red) will be affected by the same issues.
I get that you’re probably a troll so this will not make a difference in the garbage that you post. I recommend that you be at least have fun with it like @Melania Marriott.
You are a fool. Go to another BLM riot, I mean protest.
Again Californian pompous fool, what have you folks done to help the people you claim to help. If you guys didn’t talk the talk don’t to the nation about how great your state is. As you said “As California goes, so goes the nation”, you claim equality but can’t walk the walk, your governor recall proves something’s wrong…
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So you claim businesses aren’t investing in California, but you’re flying there on business trips.
I said investments in lower class people also the middle class. I mean great for multi-degree folks in those states but how many start-ups, bankers or lawyers can run a 18-wheeler or a small bar, mom/pop store?.
The majority of the economy is still the middle class and pissin on them economically because they didn’t attend a 4-year scam institute (university) and come out in debt isn’t the way to go.
I did go out there for federal reasons but it wasn’t commercial and less people are going out there for commercial reasons is concerning.
Keep drinking the traitorous Trump KoolAid.
LOL, spoken like a true 3rd world citizen.
You mean fair election like in China or Cuba…don’t you comrade.
No, Yates, that’s the kind of election Trump was pushing for with trying to throw out legally cast ballots.
Lol, because some citizens don’t believe in western European insanity means the US is behind?, lol Left lane losers know the gig is up in ’22. Can’t lecture the rest of the nation if your stuff is messed up.
Let the left pay higher taxes since they love them so much.
Yes he did, but let’s not make Trump the Spotlight of this conversation.
you suck
Big surprise…all but one went for Biden. What a bunch of screwed up people.
All the coastal states that will lose a large amount of territory due to sea level rise.
Yeah you are so factual. I mean California is only the Worlds 5th largest Economy and New York would be the 10th
Sleepy Joe has done it again.
I’m sure the Leaders in these States have no intention of giving up there multiple homes and Private Jet Flights to lower their own carbon foot prints.
Biden and and congress won’t ever pass this. They don’t have the support on either side. Biden can’t do it by executive order because next president will just wipe it away. These idiots think this is going to make a difference in climate, i’ll say it again humans will never control the climate they might destroy the enviroment but won’t have any effect on world wide climate.
This is just grand standing by the far left.
The truth is most MFGs have gotten to a point they can see they will have the tech in the future to build EV cars that will be acceptable to the public and affordable. But what they also see is that they will be more profitable as they will be cheaper to build. Development cost on ICE is getting more and more expensive but as the ROI on EV and the lack of emissions and MPG standards it will get cheaper.
The rush of all the automakers to this all electric plan is not about them worrying about trees or climate it is about profits. Now they found a path forward they have embraced it. More and more names are joining in.
Even Ferrari now has announced their first all electric car. That should be a strong signal to all of us where this is going.
It is all about money.
V8.R, please explain your math to me, “electric cars will be cheaper to build” and “ICE is getting more and more expensive due to emmission”.
How in the hell is a car like the bolt going to be cheaper than the chevy sonic even if battery prices are cut in half???? FYI, bolt starts at 36000, most sold for around 40,000. Sonic started when they still made it for 15000, most sold for LESS THAN THAT with incentives, and FYI, GM still made money on the sonic. The power trail alone was cheaper on the sonic as it was a pile of cast aluminum vs miles of precision drawn expensive copper.
Also, emissions??? Please research up and coming engine tech.
HCCI, is now a thing. FYI, an HCCI engine is so clean it doesn’t require a catalytic converter. Mazda has production units in europe right now, and plans on introducing it here with a new strait 6 soon. GM had a prototype and was ready to release a production 2.4 ecotech HCCI back In 2008, until the bailout shelved all R&D, and by the time they had recovered, gas was cheap.
In this timeframe of “10 years” to ban ICE engines from washington state, ICE engines will require no catalytic converter, be more powerful than ever, get 60-70% better gas mileage and be cheaper to build as I predict they won’t need 1 a catalytic converter, 2 starter/alternator will be standard, eliminating another part, 3 radiators for engine coolant will be part of the past as engine efficiency increases and what little cooling needed under high load can be supplied by the AC system, butting out the water pump and water weight as well.
Also, cummins is trying to remove DEF from their new motors. They are using cylinder deactivation to reduce airflow in the system to increase exhaust temperature, thusly requiring an regen cycle, and burning all unused fuel in the particulate filter, no other emissions device required.
The Sonic with a 1.4t has a cast iron block, not cast aluminum. Ultimately batteries will be cheaper to make imo because there is less assembly and moving parts… I’m not say BEV is better than ICE, quite the opposite really, but some of your claims about the Sonic and Bolt are a little off. I think BEVs are basically disposable cars, not designed to be fixed. I’ll be sticking with ICE vehicles until they put me in the ground. Luckily when I’m in the ground I won’t be leeching heavy metals into the water supply like lithium batteries…
Does this mean it would be roughly difficult to crack the 1.4T’s block?
I don’t have any experience building motors, but I have some friends who do. I’ve heard that iron blocks are usually more tolerant to cheap high boost builds. That being said I’m sure there are some sleeved aluminum block builders that would disagree.
It opens the door for a “mileage tax” in order to make up for the loss of gasoline taxes. Also, where will all the kilowatts come from to charge all the batteries? Nuclear? Setting goals is a great practice in life, however, they must be realizable goals.
I call on ”the big guy” to bury his head in the sand until 2024
2035? Wow, how progressive they’re! We have already a full line-up of passenger electric cars ,and light duty trucks from almost dozen different brands are coming next year All you need is buses, medium and heavy duty vehicles. There are some hydrogen and electric buses in the market but not enough but Tesla finally releases Tesla Semi later this year. So others would fallow. Therefore 2035 is too conservative and late.
My suggestion is ban on sales of new passenger gas cars, motorcycles and light duty vehicles as of 2025, new mid to heavy duty commercial vehicles in 2030 and finally ban on all gas vehicles in use by year 2035.
This will give an enormous first mover advantage to GM against competition; Two battery plants are already underway, ultium battery tech is getting mature, and couple dozens of EV are currently in the pipeline. This will also create an economic boom, because it means people would buy 250 million new vehicles in next ten years to replace 276 million currently on the road.
california did this in the 90s and eventually backed off. i would like to know if the supply chain can handle 17mm electric vehicles a year in the USA at reasonably affordable pricing. the electric grid is also another question i have. I mean think about this, if you charge your car at home, you will most likely do it when you get home from work. well the sun aint shining then so there will be serious questions regarding supply and demand. so there will probably have to be dynamic pricing to compel people to charge during the day. well if we all drive electric, how do you charge at work? alternate days? how about a warehouse with 5,000 cars. a charge station can run 50k.
I am getting a hummer, well i will get a 220v at home for myself, i will get the tesla powerwall, i have solar , and i have money. if you dont have money, this is going to suck.
Are they going to ban the electric power plants which pollute too? Between the pollution in manufacturing the electric cars and the pollution from generating electric power, are we really ahead pollution wise with electric cars?
They should! Then it would force liberals to let us use gas cars again!
Way to go ! ” ban them” and use tyrannical powers to eliminate any and all freedom of choice for consumers and manufacturers. The Lithium mine owners are counting their increased profits and will now proceed with their plans to dredge large swaths of the Ocean Floor to find more of the difficult-to-find Lithium. More stupid Politicians, many of which who never held a real job in their lives….like Biden. Just where do these imbeciles imagine all this additional electricity is going to come from ? Duh !
If those states want that, let their citizens vote in it. Why do we have to do what California and New York do?
No problem. Keep your electric drama inside your state. Pay for your own choices and keep your electric vehicles out of states who appreciate gasoline powered vehicles. Don’t like chocolate, don’t eat chocolate. Live and let live. “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.
Why are we not concerned about power plant emissions? It would only make sense for these twelve states to also require zero emission power plants by the same date, otherwise the vehicles are not zero emission, they just move the emissions from the streets to the power plants. Why doesn’t anyone ever think about that? If all road vehicles convert to electric, the USA will need about twice as many power plants as are currently operating. Most of that electricity comes from burning fossil fuels.
Karl, which is exactly why we are pushing for greener energy sources, to reduce coal and other carbon based power plants. Also, did you forget that the EPA rolled back emissions regulations on those dirty plants?
It will take more than Electric Vehicles from any manufacturer globally in order to make a total positive impact in reversing the effects of Climate Change, I don’t hear too much updates on the status with the restoration of the Amazon Rainforest, which has a significant role in the balance of our Climate,
And all this time I thought it was the influx of Illegal Aliens coming from the south that caused climate change. I guess both our arguments are based on “the science”.
solar panels and batteries are WAY more toxic than fossil fuels.
This is not about climate change, it is about the shift in who makes the dough.
Or do you mean the LACK of shift in the gm A8 transmission
Stop before you expose those cooks. Nothing to see here, move along.
I don’t like banning gas cars.
With the price of Zero Emissions gas coming way down I think that a better way to improve the environment would be to impose a carbon tax (on all carbon taken out of the ground) that slowly gets larger until it equals the cost of removing the carbon from the air. Then gas will cost more than it does now (because of how expensive carbon capture is) but it will let us decide whether to buy a gas car (and pay for more expensive gas) or buy an EV. In this plan you the consumer would decide what is best (most economical, most fun, ect.) car to buy for your self and not let the government control you as much. And it would save the environment because all the carbon will be removed from the air.
I don’t like banning gas cars.
With the price of Zero Emissions gas coming way down I think that a better way to improve the environment would be to impose a carbon tax (on all carbon taken out of the ground) that slowly gets larger until it equals the cost of removing the carbon from the air. Then gas will cost more than it does now (because of how expensive carbon capture is) but it will let us decide whether to buy a gas car (and pay for more expensive gas) or buy an EV. In this plan you the consumer would decide what is best (most economical, most fun, ect.) car to buy for your self and not let the government control you as much. And it would save the environment because all the carbon will be removed from the air.
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The WORST Red state is 10x better than the best BLUE state.
We’ll see if Texas made any improvements to it’s Independent Engergy Sector that will avoid another Black Out this coming winter!!
Blue states are subsidized by Red states.
Remove these 12 governors in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Seriously, invite one million people in Mexico to come up for the vote, get a ballot for your dog, goldfish and new born baby too…..LOL Bring back the Z28 and burn rubber in front of the governors homes….and post the smoke cloud on the various social media outlets, like Parler and Trump’s new chat app.
Heck one look at the list and it’s all the usual suspects. litards in charge.
Tyrannical Authoritarianism much? Psychotic power-hungry zealots, all of ‘em.
How about if Democrats want electric vehicles they simply pay all the expenses related to them and leave the ICE people out of it.
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