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Electric cars are parked at a charging station in Sacramento, Calif., on April 13, 2022. Page 7
Associated Press

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE ing Director of the Institute of Transporta-
Associated Press tion Studies at the University of California, Detecting Stony Coral
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Davis, called the vote “the most important
plans to require all new cars, trucks and and transformative action” the air board Tissue Loss Disease in
SUVs to run on electricity or hydrogen by has ever taken. The policy still needs fed-
2035 under a policy approved Thursday eral approval but that’s considered very Aruba
by regulators that seeks a dramatic cut in likely under Democratic President Joe Bi-
carbon emissions and an eventual end to den’s administration. It allows Californians
gasoline-powered vehicles. to keep driving gas-powered vehicles and
The decision by the California Air Resourc- buying used ones after 2035, but no new
es Board came two years after Gov. Gavin models would be sold in the state.
Newsom first directed regulators to con- One-fifth of automakers’ sales after 2035
sider such a policy. If the goal is reached, could be plug-in hybrids, which run on bat-
California would cut emissions from cars teries and gas, but the rest must be pow-
in half by 2040. The move gives the most ered solely by electricity or hydrogen.
populous U.S. state the world’s most strin- The European Parliament in June backed
gent regulations for transitioning to elec- a plan to effectively prohibit the sale of
tric vehicles. It is expected to prompt other gas and diesel cars in the 27-nation Eu-
states to follow California’s lead and to ropean Union by 2035, and Canada has
accelerate the production of zero-emis- mandated the sale of zero-emission cars
sion vehicles by automakers. by the same year.
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