California Asks Biden Administration To Approve 2035 Gas-Only Vehicle Ban
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General Motors is set to transition its entire light-duty vehicle lineup to all-electric powertrains by 2035. As it just so happens, that lines up with California’s ambitions to ban gasoline-only new-vehicle sales around the same timeframe. Now, California is seeking approval from the Biden administration to move forward with its gas-powered new-vehicle sales ban.
Per a recent report from Reuters, the state of California is looking to the Biden administration to green light a plan that requires all new vehicles sold in the Golden State to be either all-electric or plug-in electric hybrids. The plan was approved by the California Air Resource Board (CARB) in August, while earlier this week, CARB asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve a waiver under the Clean Air Act to put into place more stringent annual emissions rules starting in 2026. The new rules would lay out a year-by-year plan to increase restrictions on vehicle emissions, eventually leading to a state-wide ban on gasoline-powered new-vehicle sales by 2035.
As GM Authority covered previously, seventeen U.S. states are now considering whether to follow California’s lead in implementing a ban on new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles by 2035 in order to drive up sales of all-electric models. Reports indicate that Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Vermont are among the states that are highly likely to adopt a ban similar to that proposed by California, while states like Virginia and Minnesota are expected to push back on the ban.
California, which is the largest car market in the U.S., is expected to lead the charge in the transition to EVs across the nation, with one recent analysis published by Energy Innovation predicting that all-electric models will make up two-thirds of new passenger vehicles sales across the United States by the 2035 timeframe.
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This will be a nightmare for those states if they go with this. Many people who don’t want electric will end up moving away. However I have a feeling none of this will happen because sooner or later the people pushing this nonsense will be dead and many people will realize its not possible to go 100 percent electric on all cars. Only way it will happen if you can charge your car up to 100% in less than 10-15 minutes.
Someone will be importing “new” cars to the inmates of Crazyfornia from other sane states.
Why does Crazy CA need Biden’s approval for a stupid state law? Sounds like virtual signaling to me.
Individual states are not allowed to pass regulation that violates the Interstate Commerce Clause.
The EPA gave California authority in 1970 to set more stringent standards than Federal law allows and allows other states to adopt California’s standards. This asinine and idiotic should have been (and probably will be) challenged in the Supreme Court. In essence, you have a small group of state bureaucrats potentially dictating policy to the rest of the nation. This is backwards.
And if there was even enough power to supply
I doubt there is a single state in the union without some form of farming. I don’t see PRACTICAL electrification of vehicles (both the vehicles and the resources to charge them) coming for quite a while.
So, no electric farm trucks, tractors, harvesters, picking machines, etc. What are those farmers to do?
We become more dystopian by the day. And the auto industry news is so depressing now. Almost nothing fun or exciting is being made anymore.
We all love to smell the exhaust of your vehicles! It’s not good for our health…PERIOD.
I’ve been smelling that exhaust for 67 years, My dad did it for 75, and all my family who has been involved in the customization of cars since the early 1900s all lived long lives. Smelling that sweet exhaust is good for the mind.
What a bunch of thoughtless childish responses. This post is overrun with people that have “dug in” to hold on to their obsession with what has not worked well in favor of the health of all us. To say that you and yours, in so many words “have dodged the bullet” by bragging, doesnt bode well for those who have suffered from filthy air, caused mostly by
that “sweet smell” of auto exhaust. Shame on your lack of empathy for those of us who have health issues. My dear father, a mechanic of
some 50 years, died of lung cancer, as did my brother. Never smoked
Actually not stressing the lungs with occasional air pollution WEAKENS the immune system. Just like babies who don’t eat dirt can’t handle regular infections. Air pollution is actually better for your lungs if it’s light to moderate exposure than not having any and being unable to handle a short exposure to it.
Joan, this law has nothing to do with exhaust emissions. Tailpipe emissions are so low nowadays that you can’t even use your car to commit suicide. This law is about a misguided attempt to stop climate change by reducing CO2.
LOL, cars run very clean these days compared to pre catalytic converters and no lead gas. Back then exhaust smelled bad but not now.
Remember going to the Chevy, Ford, Buick, etc. delarships to see the new cars in the 50’s? The big spotlights. Free hotdogs and cola’s. When you keep the same model for a number of years, only changing the facia or less, then it is not exciting.
I DO remember those days! I also remember the choking smog that finally gave me
Leukemia. The auto industry was in bed with BIG OIL.
Now we have to clean up the carnage and mess left behind.
Sorry for your bad luck but I’ve never heard of smog causing leukemia.
The methane gas in air pollution, caused by ICE vehicles burning fossil fuels, is known to be a contributor to blood cancers and lung cancers.
I guess I’m screwed I have spent most of my career working in coal-fired power plants and now the natural gas industry. But hey I will be 64 in August and still working everyday and in good shape. Good free red state living I suppose.
Leukemia and smog, hmmm. New one in the medical annuls. Sorry you have leukemia but maybe you should get a second opinion on what caused it.
I frankly can’t believe these responses Doctor.
Yeh, I’m not obsessing on what caused this, what’s done is done.
But, yes, I looked into it as I was raised in Southern Cal in the 60’s and 70’s, and, unless you did so….some people like myself, did not have the defenses or immune system to combat the toxins, or as one poster so aptly put it, “the sweet smell” ( of exhaust)…wow! Really?!
Yes, and it was a big deal to get a new car, the neighbors came over to see it.
As long as we don’t have to deal with rolling blackouts on a daily basis in 2035 and beyond! It would be comforting to hear something from state and federal governments about bolstering infrastructure (aka: the grid) to ensure we have enough juice to meet all the demands. Buckle up kids, it’s going to get interesting!
The problem with asking the government to do it will be a completely over budget and never get done in a timely manner if ever. The government needs to release its grip it has on energy companies. Encourage the companies by not being stupid and causing harm to people. But too many in government aren’t there to help people but control them.
Yeh, that’s why the government has been subsidizing the oil companies since the beginning of time. So you have it backwards. The oil companies have been controlling us, or did you not get the memo when gas prices soared last year, and oil company profits were record breaking. Inflation
was out of control Worldwide, due mainly from steep oil prices.
Oil prices soared because we have an idiot president whose first act after getting in the White House was to attach the oil industry by cancelling the Keystone Pipeline and restricting drilling and exploration. Couple that with running away from Afghanistan and hence removing any deterrent from Russia invading the Ukraine and that is what caused higher oil prices. Before the clown we have as president took office, this nation was energy independent and selling our oil to other nations. Since Biden took office, we are now begging our enemies to share their oil with us.
The federal government has been preventing electric companies from improving the grid. Younger generations are in serious trouble and don’t even realize it.
Preventing ? I think you are confused
As soon as the present administration is gone so will these stupid mandates go with them. Any future administration with common sense will go back to drill baby drill and we will be energy independent again and EVs will become novelty items for rich kids again. Anybody with common sense knows EVs have a long row to hoe before they are a viable alternative. Range, recharging times, infrastructure all have to be fixed before EVs become the standard in transportation. When you see the power companies start spending millions of $$$ upgrading the infrastructure you can actually say EVs will be viable. Not before!
This proposal and other important policies will hinge on the outcome of the next Presidential election.
I am extremely happy that my home state of New York will follow this ban. There were many EV charging stations in the City over a 100 years ago. Most EV drivers were women.
Are you happy that your home state of New York is also following California’s violence, high taxes, homeless crises, and legalized theft with its lame-ass woke prosecuters?
Which state is following which?
# Russian troll alert.
Everyone else. Please read about Putin’s Internet Research Agency, and don’t feed the trolls.
At least Putin isn’t senile and quite frankly I’d have him run the country a few years until Trump is back in the saddle. Can’t be worse than who’s in it now!
We are not discussing Russia here.
New Moscow is just as bad as Kommifornia. Run by the brainless.
GM Owner: Are you also extremely happy that like my state, more people are leaving New York vs moving to your state?
Newsome and Biden. Two of americas prized possessions……….not!!!!🤬🤬🤬.
Crazyfornia is at it again! Look at me, look at me!
As bad as a Harley rider with loud pipes/ LOOK AT MEEEE!!!
Here in Texas the gov just signed into law that we get to choose what we drive. So far so good. We’ll see what happens.
If the EV Revolution were as promising as it’s made to sound by the “Time Share” marketers, you wouldn’t need the Gov’t adopting a policy of ‘You Won’t Have a Choice’ .
And they wonder why Californian “Has the Most People Leaving Their State? (look it up) I like the Spoof of the guy in his EV waiting in line to get gas. The guys tell him he doesn’t need gas to run his car. He pops his hatch back and there sits a Honda Generator and an extension cord. LOL
Who’s “they?”
I am surrounded by good people that love it here!
Didn’t you say living in CA caused your leukemia but now you love it?
I’m for the transition to EV, but don’t think it should be mandated. If an EV suits your needs, then that is what you should get, and by 2035 that may be the case for most people. To mandate the ban of gas-only vehicles (though still allowing gas powered plug-in hybrids) is going to cause even more push back from “no one is going to tell me what to drive” crowd. Not to give the crazies any ideas, but stopping short of a mandate a $20/gal “right of use” tax on gas may accomplish the same thing.
This is for NEW cars…keep your ICE. But when will we seriously address climate change? It’s already too late….
Scam.
I think you’re right. It’s too late. We only have 8 years left. Since AOC said in 2019 “The World is Going to End In Twelve Years If We Don’t Address Climate Change.” Enjoy your 8 years you have left.
Most people seem to have missed that the internal combustion engine is not being banned by this proposal. A plug in hybrid is still an option. PHEV is probably the best intermediate option while energy distribution undergoes technological transformation.
This is one of most intelligent posts in this sea of “immature boys”…
It’s tracked to a “good ol’ boys CLUB”…
“Don’t confuse ME with the facts, my mind is already made up” mentality….
Blaming the current administration for trying to protect the health of its citizens
normally would be a good thing. But if you are with TEAM TRUMP it’s “my way or the Highway”. Don’t help anyone that doesn’t love you or donate to your cause.
Benefit financially by calling the election rigged. HE didn’t believe it either…it was a money making scheme, and so it goes.
Didn’t you say living in CA caused your leukemia but now you love it?
The current administration could give a rat’s behind less about the health of their citizens. If they did they would not let millions of undocumented migrants- with God knows what type of backgrounds they have- come into this nation potentially carrying disease and criminal histories. Our “concerned” government would also not allow- and in some cases- encourage crime by not prosecuting criminals and/or letting them back out in the streets to steal and assault some more. Also speaking of public health, a “concerned” government would not allow the homeless to set up communities in the streets and allowing those same streets to be used as an open toilet. I am sure there are health hazzards aplenty from feces and urine piling up in the streets.
The biggest scam of the 21st century electric cars! It is a shell game moving polution out of your neighborhood and dumping it in someone else’s i.e. the countries that have their rare earth minerals raped so you can feel good.
Sorry, the “biggest scam” was the oil companies knowledge in the 60s that
greenhouse gases were a direct link to auto emissions…and the cover up began…
Would have been nice had we’d seen the report sooner. Now our kids get to try to work it out.
F— numbnutts Newsome and FJB!
These politicians are only interested in lining their own pockets from special interests. If they really cared about saving the earth. They would consider hydrogen power.
Voters keep voting for the same party hoping life will improve in California. It won’t.
I’ve been thinking of leaving California for sometime. My move out od California is getting closer.
It’s nice to read all these great posts. I see the similarities that Make us great Americans who care about the direction of one of most important things of our lives.Nostalgic cars that still excite us is obvious.When Dad picked up his new 1970 GTO it was exciting and still is …Can the same be said for a Tesla that drives it self and won’t have its original battery in 50yrs.We like choices like greasy cheese burgers and Happiness without government taking away great things that made us who we have become.I know a man who has a hybrid,It burns gas ..and it burns Rubber!
And we all know that oil and gas doesn’t come from fossils right
Who in California is asking for the Biden administration to move forward with the gasoline vehicle ban? I do not know one person that supports this. California – the land of fruits and nuts. The democrats in California are so stupid to make this EV mandate especially since they don’t even have enough electricity on hot days when everyone is running their AC, and yet they want to increase that load and not build any electricity generating power plants, but rely on solar and wind – what happens when the wind doesn’t blow at night? There isn’t the infrastructure to support this requirement and nothing to build up the electrical grid has been proposed. What happens when a natural disaster strikes and the electrical grid is shut down? Why doesn’t the state require all government vehicle to be EVs and see how that works before requiring the whole state to change over?
Soon there will be mandates that you can only run your AC from 1:00a to 1:01a so there will be enough electricity for the transgendered vehicles that we will be mandated to buy.
It is Newsome. Virtue signaling 101. Rest assured, he will have enough gasoline-powered backup generators at his mansion paid for by the California taxpayer to keep his AC and lights on while the “little people” have to sacrifice for the good of the planet.
Don’t worry about it folks the United States will not exist by 2035 So it won’t be a problem for us
Stand on an overpass on any major highway in the US and take a look and try to count every car passing in both directions and tell yourself everyone of these vehicles passing right now can all be charged at same time.Has any one seen my phone charger outlet.How Nieve the sheep herd is..