Washington state is set to ban the sale of most new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2030.
A bill signed into law by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee last week indicates the state will instruct its interagency electric vehicle coordinating council to complete a scoping plan by December 31st, 2023, which will outline how to achieve the 2030 target. The measure, known as Clean Cars 2030, is described as “the most aggressive state target in the U.S. for the phaseout of gasoline cars,” setting a goal of outlawing the sale of such vehicles five earlier than California’s much-talked-about 2035 deadline.
The measure was passed as part of a so-called “Move Ahead Washington,” transportation package that was detailed last week, which is valued at nearly $17 billion. Legislators say the bill will help to “spur public and private investment in EVs and EV charging infrastructure and help Washingtonians save money on vehicle fuel and maintenance while enjoying cleaner air and water.”
The measure was first introduced by Washington Representative Nicole Macri in 2020, but was only signed into law by Inslee last week.
“Clean Cars 2030 puts Washington on the road to powering its vehicles with cheap, clean, renewable electricity produced in-state and reduces the threat that oil and gasoline pose to our air, water, health, and economy,” Macri said in a prepared statement.
In addition to Washington, a variety of other states have previously outlined their own plans to outlaw the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles within a certain timeframe, including New York and California. The federal government in Canada has also said it will outlaw new gasoline and diesel vehicle sales by 2035, while the Biden Administration has set a target of achieving 50 percent EV market share in the U.S. by 2030.
With federal and state governments moving to outlaw gasoline vehicle sales, the automotive industry is reacting accordingly. Virtually every major automaker now has its own aggressive EV rollout strategies, including GM, which previously said it would launch 30 new EVs globally by 2025. GM also said it will invest more than $35 billion in electric and autonomous vehicles by mid-decade.
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Will this be repealed in a budget bill like the no bail law in NY was? I’m actually surprised NY is recognizing their stupid and fixing some of their mistakes.
Brandon and Camela are chitting in their pants! They’ll love it!
Let’s go Brandon!
Rent free is talking about people who are no longer In office. You clearly have no clue what the word means.
Did you hear that from Hillary or read it in the Fake News?
Oh, thought free googled something. Brilliant genius. Your boy Biden’s a disaster, all you do is post whataboutism nonsense.
Thought free
“Kamala”
KAMEL TOE!
Rent free.
Thought free
Thought free
Jake:
It’s spelled: “..they’re stupid…”
Females?, From these decisions I’d agree…
Virtual signals ahead, they’ll vote this extreme Lefty out just like the extreme Lefty in the other Washington in the next few years, Washington state climate wouldn’t support EVs in the interior of the state.
I’m all for EVs, this is not how you do it..
It’s when a politician cares more about following an ideology to pander to a fringe element rather than governing for the good of all of his or her citizens.
Lets Go Brandon… Highest inflation in 40 years. Highest gas prices ever.. Talking stupid sh!t trying to piss Putin off big time, than tries to backpedal his way out… Yea, FJB..
I’m a lawyer I’m superior to you
How’s Alaska?
Fake. You are not the real h4cksaw. You are a imposter who the real h4cksaw called out earlier.
Social engineering.
Can’t afford an electric car. Ride the bus. Can’t afford a (overpriced because I’m sure you can’t bring one from out of state) used ice. Ride the bus
What did the World Economic Forum say? You won’t own anything and you will love it. The WEF’s vision for the common man is to live in a 250 square foot apartment in a high density apartment block and use public transportation. I am sure the WEF envisions the leaders living in gated community luxury estates, though.
Wow genius you just described a politician. Well done
Na most small business owners I have ever encountered are just trying to make a decent living. CEO’s like the lifer at GM are paid way too much for the poor performance they churn out!
At least we can agree that CEOs are paid way too much.
Eric Vest: A+ to you.
Your comment on the World Economic Forum forum about high density housing and public transportation is spot on. Denver now has high density high rise housing downtown and high density mid rise residential complexes outside the core and in the suburbs. Salt Lake City has hundreds of mid rise high density residential projects within the city and throughout the Salt Lake Valley. Reno has several huge mid and low rise high density residential projects currently.
In fact Reno has a huge mid rise high density residential complex just being completed called the Reno Experience in the site of a former mall shopping center. I predict the Reno Police Department will eventually have a substation in this complex to handle domestic violence and drug abuse related calls.
Aside from all this, the vehicle traffic in Denver, Salt Lake City and Reno is now just like Los Angeles. So public transportation will eventually need to come into further play, along with alternative smaller vehicles.
With this new lifestyle living for the masses, Mary and her corporate strategy team I feel are spot on with mini autonomous busses and small autonomous electric cars for people residing in these high density complexes. Also the workplace will shift from multi floor commercial offices to apartment suites with computer workstations. The newer generations will be automatons having their tangible goods and food/beverage delivered by Amazon, Walmart, Target, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, etc. It will be a completely closed loop system.
Outside of this, IC vehicles will still rule outside of these living spaces if market choice has it the Adam Smith way versus mandatory state and electric vehicle laws and regulations which will eventually be challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court. Stay tuned for this. Let the Constitution prevail. We are in for very historic and exciting times.
More like historic and tragic times.
More like everything’s fine.
So apartments are a conspiracy now too. Lol.
David, thank you for the post. It seems like many of the pro -BEV posters want to force everyone out of ICE vehicles and it is impossible to reason with them. If you look at the facts BEV’s are not an environmental panacea. The power plants powering the BEV cars pollute and the mining/manufacturing involved in lithium ion batteries is very bad. Most people don’t realize it, but a lot of the pollution from cars is created during the manufacturing process. It seems like the pro-BEV posters are all about in top down control with a disdain for anyone else’s preferences or freedom in general. Fortunately, I don’t see this insufferable behavior in my region of the country.
The power plants pollute less than ICE cars do collectively though.
1. What are low income people supposed to do?
2. EVs aren’t even all that “greener”, do ur research!
That does not matter. The commie politicians out there know more about vehicles than the car companies.
1. Low income people don’t buy new cars silly
2. You don’t know that
It seems you’re lost. They buy used ones, and how many non ICE used ones will there be and reasonable prices by that point?
There so hellbent on regulating things they know nothing about let them pay for it instead of the consumer.
No. But I want the government to let me buy the vehicle I want.
Apparently the state of Washington and other states are trying.
Do you live in Washington and is it 2030?
Middle class buy new budget cars, and used luxury vehicles and lower class buy used budget cars. What’s this means is that the upper middle class will have used cars and the rest of the middle class will have to use public transit. Those filthy peasant’s! Let them drive cake!
@Charlie
That’s an idiotic comment. Low income people absolutely buy new cars. Low income does not mean poverty.
Clean cheap energy. Really. Over 80% of electricity comes from coal fired plants. Keep drinking the cool aid.
So you think the way things are today is the way they’ll always be?
I actually don’t. But the narrative…?
All electrics do, for now, is just move the tailpipe from the end of your car to the coal furnace.
I have NO PROBLEMS with change. But change that is built on a LIE/HALF TRUTH might not stand when people become the wiser…
Then future ‘change’ is jeopardized by past ‘half truths…”
Oh really. So then please explain to us how man caused climate change before the internal combustion engine, airplanes, cargo ships and factories. What happened in the 1400’s, 1500’s, 1600’s, 1700’s and 1800’s to cause the climate to continually change? Why did we have an ice age and then things started warming up millions of years ago? Did dinosaur farts change the climate and kill them off millions of years ago? I’m waiting with popcorn in hand for your Libtard fear mongering “the world is going to end tomorrow” response that this group has been saying for the past 50 plus years!
GREAT ANSWER Shockandawe. 98% of the world’s scientists agree, but a bunch of clowns living in their mom’s basement somehow know better because they saw it on Faux News or read it on some ultra-right wing website. Buffoons…
Funny it’s cable news according to everybody who watches it that keeps saying we are all doomed and are going to be dead in insert date here like they have been the past 50 plus years. These comical CNN and MSNBC news articles are plastered all over the internet and it’s hard to not notice them
BTW genius I don’t watch cable news or live in a basement- I have my own house, go out and work and am probably far older than you are and apparently much wiser and make up my own mind and decisions. None of your prattling has proven anything and Shockandawe is hardly an authority on anything and never will be!
You misunderstand. I believe in climate change. But, as long as our country prioritizes PROFITS, we will never come to a real solution that is in the BEST interest of everyone, not just those who make decisions and have money.
The current narrative for electric vehicles is a HALF TRUTH at best! I see the benefits, but you can’t keep lying to people in this day and age. Too easy to research (from various sources) the truth.
Then, you already know the lesson about the boy who cried wolf…
Yes it is real and happening, however no one is dying or ever will die from climate change. It’s a really slow process, one degree by 2100, maybe. There may be some property damage, but that’s it. Humanity will adapt. Which by the way is where the focus should be, on adapting. The data indicates that even if all the Paris accord goals were met it would have little to no effect on temperature increase. So let’s adapt.
According to the US Energy Information Agency 21.8% of Electricity in the US is produced via Coal. All Fossil Fuels together are 60.8%. So, no, your statement that 80% comes from coal is wrong.
Plus the poor and middle class can’t afford it period, people need to wake up.
Idiots. Washington state has turned into a real sewer the last five years under their “great” leadership.
Used to be. Seattle has become a war zone because of the great far-left leadership.
So do I. Your point?
I’m a lawyer you aren’t as smart as me. I’m way more superior then you are.
Just clarifying the whole rock thing.
LMAO. Here they go legislating another nightmare that will turn out to be more mess than solution–IDIOTS. But then blame it on the fools who voted that way putting these idiots in power.
I hope the good folks in the Pacific Northwest will enjoy the rolling blackouts and waiting 2 hours to charge your car for another 200 miles. Rest assured the idiots that signed this bill will have plenty of electricity for themselves.
I don’t rely on any news source. I inform and educate myself and have not forgotten what common sense is.
CNN and MSNBC tells people they should be afraid of climate change all the time. Is that where you get you’re news from?
Fake. You aren’t the real Shockandawe
You steal a persons user name because you are upset about something they said in the past. You are trying to use a persons name who is well known on here to act like them and say things they would never say you’re a clown. I’ve seen Shockandawe comment on this website for over a year now and you are not him.
Ok sorry you’re right I’ve changed it.
Then what got you so terrified of global warming?
Mostly the IPCC reports and NASA data. As well as peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Ignore the post below: not mine. The way this,world is going, I personally think it will be destroyed within 100 years.
Ignore those other two, I’m the real Tigger and I say bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy fun fun fun fun fun.
Votes matter.
What are they trying to do take us back to horse and buggy and oh by the way there are alot of products that use oil and on top if everything they don’t tell you about electric vehicles is of they are in a wreck the batteries can explode, they have a larger carbon footprint than gas and the batteries are more toxic than what we currently have .also what in the heck am I supposed to pull my horse trailer with .
You forgot to mention, Paula, that EVs are literally lead sleds that will inflict a lot of damage if they hit another vehicle.
You nay be wrong about the horse and buggy, the communist left may want to make horses extinct because they emit too much Co2s.
Since you correctly mentioned the danger of EV’s being so dangerous in any accident they are involved in due to their weight and where it is located, the First Responders have been attending classes for well over a decade on how dangerous it is for all those involved in any accident with any EV. Dangerous for First Responders, occupants of the EV and occupants of the other vehicle(s) involved. The EV Lobbyists are going to great lengths to hide that information but if you have a friend, neighbor or relative that is a First Responder, ask them if they have been to these classes yet. Electrocution is a real possibility and so is a Lithium Ion fire which is difficult to extinguish.
Mind free
You can add. I’m impressed!
I can also add up the fact you’re a white supremacist!
What sewer did you dig that comment from?
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This is absolutely insane. These so called progressive state legislatures are blindly caught up in the flavor of the moment climate thing. They fail to understand that methane vent stacks on residential, commercial and industrial sanitary sewers contribute 100x’s more pollution than IC engines. So please everybody stop relieving yourselves of liquid and solid bodily wastes that is creating sewer gas methane being harmfully vented into the atmosphere.
Wonder if this precludes someone from buying a car out of state and bringing it into Washington State? The law of “unintended consequences” will certainly be interesting to watch.
I bet the dealers in Washington are estatic over this. I wonder how many will just throw up their hands and close up shop.
In most cases you cannot buy a new vehicle without one.
What a bozo. You don’t like what the real Shockandawe says so you try to use his name and change everything he has said on here for months. @Alex Luft @GMA admins why do you allow these clowns to do this? You should band this bozo’s email from ever being able to post again. This bozo has used h4cksaw name tigger name and Shockandawe name, as well as Ken and all the trump names crazy you guys would allow this sort of thing to happen.
Rolling blackouts will be one of the results. The current grid can’t support the increased load of EV charging. Clueless in Seattle
The president said the grid needs work so are you calling him a liar? What a trashy trump supporter.
You just said it would be fine the president says it’s not. I choose to believe the president before I believe some random internet goof.
Me too.
Can you say ” knee-jerk, reactionary libturds” ? People will now be leaving Washington in droves just like they are doing exiting California. Just hope they don’t bring their radical, extremist left-wing, wokie insanity with them to Pollute other States. Maybe these voters will wake up and discover what a bunch of idiots they voted into office in their State ? But based on recent history, that seems doubtful….must be something about the deary, cloudy, rainy weather in heavily populated areas of Washington State that causes brain fade.
I guess they should also plan on banning asphalt for their roads, and while they are at it, all the plastic that goes into a vehicle, as well as the tires. Someone should throw a net over them !
More and more the plastics are recycled garbage. Another bad democratic idea?? Check out the Rivian.
Whatever happened to freedom? Oppression at a cost of $17,000,000,000 that we the taxpayer are paying for, and that’s only the beginning.
You are to stupid to understand what’s going on. You are just a typical high school drop out bum speaking on things you can’t comprehend.
Too*
Buy the time it takes place the power company’s will be charging so much you won’t be able to afford it anymore they just announced a 25 % increase where will it be buy 2030
All you right wing naysayers will be proven wrong over the next 10 – 20 years, because as Warren Buffet famously said, “Nothing can stop America when you get right down to it. Never bet against America.” That’s why he’s a multi-billionaire and you’re not, and why all the “smart-money” is lining up behind EVs, EV infrastructure and green energy. So you can keep shouting IT’LL NEVER WORK from the rooftops, because that’s what people who don’t understand history always do, and history will leave you behind just like the buggy whip manufacturers. And a bunch of Thumbs Down here won’t change that. So you can either get with the program and thrive or keep resisting change and get left behind. And politics has little to do with it, as that’s just another false narrative you’ve erroneously bought into. There are MARKET FORCES at work here.
You mean the 2% of sales and 0.5% of the active vehicle fleet? Sure, sell EVs, but the government making plans to ban ICE causes them to have to develop EVs…that isn’t market forces. Give people a choice. That would be the market at work.
All OEMs are rushing to develop EVs anyway, and anyone paying attention knows this.
Because the government is forcing their hand…
No they’re doing it because Tesla’s market cap is higher than GM, Ford and Stellantis’ combined. I’m guessing you don’t know what “market cap” means so I’ll give you a clue: It has nothing to do with hats lol
Fair point but going back to the sales numbers, that isn’t based in reality either.
Lots of people care about market cap you are just to stupid to understand it.
Stop using my friends name. You are not Shockandawe you are an imposter. @ GMA @Alex Luft why do you allow these guys to do this? Why not ban them? Can you not ban the email addresses these pricks are using?
So Huey I am guessing you have all your money in Tesla stock since you and Buffet are so sure of yourself?
All my money is in mutual funds and real estate. I don’t invest in individual stocks.
So I see you don’t you don’t really have that much faith in EV’s. At least not enough to put actual money toward it.
I actually love ignorant people, as they’re not competing with me or my three college educated kids for the high paying jobs of the future 😉
How many people did the buggy whip manufacturers employ?
Your post is very strange. Washington State regulation is not market forces and battery electric vehicles do not equate to America.
This is so asinine. What are they going to do when the electrical grid is overtaxed or a storm comes and takes out the electrical grid for a week or more?
Losing power to your home for an extended period is bad enough. Things will be much worse if you now have to walk everywhere because your vehicle doesn’t have power either.
By the way I have no clue what the price of gas is. I’ve got two EVs and they charge for free from my solar panels. My electric bill is 70% less than before I bought the EVs and installed the solar.
Oh look, it’s yet another liar fabricating that his Puny Solar Panels are sufficient to re-charge his Energy Hog EV’s. These paid shills for the EV Lobby will try anything. Where are you driving your “solar panel” charged EV’s ? Did they make it around the block ? LMAO !
It’s just politics. 2030 is a long way off. The transition from ICE to EV will be a long one.
Seems only retardicians play on this thread. Bless you all, for you are the only ones we should look to when we need guidance. Only in your dreams is where you are all geniuses. Hold on I gotta go, Tuckerson show is coming on, I never miss the #1 comedy on tv.
At least it’s still ok to riot there.
Inslee is nuttier than a squirrel turd. When 2030 arrives, Washington State will be nearly unpopulated and the few far left hippies left there will be sitting on the side of the road with dead batteries. Thank God I’m old because I will never buy an EV.
Those with the Gold make the rules. Its the new golden rule. So bank are still loaning money to build condos all along the coast all over the world. And if the seas rise 4 feet as they’ve been saying they will in the next 10+ years most of Florida and England along with many others will be underwater but yet the banks are still loaning money on 20 and 30 year notes. And banks and Insurance companies are pretty good at risk management. Time will tell but there scare tactics wont work anymore. They’re exaggerated claims have been just that so far exaggerated. USA cant stop this alone. China Russia India and so many others not on board with this. Sad but true.
Do the people there want this or is it just tyranny of the Demoncrap party?
I want it.
Maybe all this will bring the price of gas down, less demand.
BEV’s transfer emissions to the power plants; BEV’s don’t eliminate emissions. Also, making lithium ion batteries is a dirty process. There was not a serious analysis and discussion of these points when the Washington legislators passed this regulation. Washington State does have relatively cheap and plentiful electricity due to their hydro-electric plants. In many regions of the United States electricity is expensive, not plentiful, and the electric grid is fragile. Minimizing regulation and letting the market or in other words the collective judgement of the car buying public work is a much better course of action than turning over car purchasing decisions to the political class.
You can’t be that naive. The legislators are just there to collect a paycheck from the taxpayer and pander to special interests. They are too stupid to discuss anything else.
Communists have ruined this website and also the once proud General Motors.
The pollution from the electric power plants and the battery related mining and manufacturing negates the positive environmental impact of BEV’s. Does anyone really think the 4+ ton, 1,000 horsepower Hummer EV is environmentally superior to a three cylinder Chevrolet Trailblazer? Taking that Hummer EV off road, putting it into crab-walk, and running over the flora and fauna is not very environmentally good, either.
EV is still cleaner.
Where did you learn that? Your correspondence law school?
As an Eastern Washingtonian, we’ve been dragged down the road by the Interstate 5/ Puget Sound Greens without any regard for the east side of the mountains. Washington’s minimum wage is $14.49, you pay 8 cents in a store for a plastic bag that is heavier than normal because regular plastic bags are illegal. Our gas tax is 49 cents a gallon, and the list goes on. We’re in a SAD state of affairs here!
This BS will why I will be leaving this state. The lunatics are running the asylum with their pi in the sky fantasies
Hopefully We will Ban THEM (leftist fools) before 2030 & stop allowing 5% radical left extremists, to RUIN The Lives & freedoms of the Majority!
we can have CLEAN Gas, propane & energy & A clean environment full of beautiful Trees, that NEED Our Co2 to live & produce Oxygen! ;
Electric power & battery’s ALSO Comes from Gas, Nuclear, & Coal to Make, Charge, & recycle…. ;
there is NO such thing as a modern , tech. , & free world W. out using Gas, oil, & natural resources to Travel,.. Produce Food,.. & Survive as the Human Race, on the Earth! ;
look at the Idiocy & mindless rambling of biden & harris & how the world has fallen into chaos in ONE Yrs time under them! :
do u really want These kind of people making the ‘rules’ for the future.??? :
there womt BE a future if extremists control the laws based on Fear.. rather than the Truth & reality, that has been working fine for 1000’s of years! ;
Oil & Gas is IN The Earth & always will be… its there FOR US To Use!
and it can & IS done in a safe & clean way!
Unfortunately for you but fortunately for me, people who think like you are in the MINORITY, perhaps not on this forum, but in the general U.S. population. And Thank God for that, because your beliefs are way off-base and not even close to reality. Your comments are bizarre and delusional, like many others here on GM Authority.
Rent free.
Huh?
The earth is warming up because of people. Well and animals. Every person born puts off 98.6 degrees. Eventually the temp on the earth will be at least 98.6..because even if we stopped every machine on the planet every person is still putting off heat.
This is low IQ SJW nonsense. The Earth has been warming and cooling over a long time, irregardless of humans.
However, there is a natural level in any environment.
More humans means more competition for limited resources…
That the elite want for themselves, feeding you propaganda.
Group IQ has been going down since 1970, the Opportunity Cost of SJW.
All leftist politics must be consumed lies
Man there’s a lot of right wing kooks in the world. Some very sick people out there….
There’s a lot of left wing nonsense fools in the world. An IQ distribution confirms it.
Institutional Systemic Racist Sexist Misandry in education and employment is not Affirmative, you racist sexist misandrist hypocrite.
A surgical mask doesn’t work for biological agents period, proven PRIOR politics US Army Nuclear Biological Chemical weapons school.
Shutdowns violate Opportunity Cost Economics Math Models. But you don’t understand Economics, or anything else.
You are a nut bar, a low IQ prostitute for politics.
Your comments very clearly demonstrate just how sick you are. What’s next Steve? Kidnapping a politician? Joining a militia? Storming the Capitol? I’ll bet you have a stockpile of guns and ammo for when the Zombie Apocalypse comes 😉 “The voices inside my head, please make them stop!!”
Your comments border on insane.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Get help
Coming from a kook like you it’s a compliment 🙂
Suck it, Jay! You’re a moron!
The premise of this article is completely incorrect. The legislation is not a ban or a mandate. It is a goal.