The rules, known as Advanced Clean Cars II, will allow people to continue to drive gas cars and sell used gas-powered vehicles after 2035. The zero-emissions requirement will apply only to new vehicle sales.
This rule is vital to ensure that we can reduce the amount of air pollution from the cars and trucks that we all drive in the state, said David Reichmuth, a senior engineer in the Clean Transportation program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Environmentalists and those setting the state's climate policy say the ambitious goal is achievable. In the first three quarters of this year, more than 25% of new car sales in California were zero-emissions vehicles.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a car and truck manufacturing trade group, said the opposite, calling California's clean car mandate 'an unaccountable, unachievable regulatory wormhole' in a memo released this month.
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