Biden-Harris Admin Greenlights Electric Vehicle Mandate for a Dozen States
19th December 2024
The Biden-Harris administration approved California’s electric vehicle mandate that will ban the sale of new gas-powered cars over the next decade—a move that impacts 11 other states that agreed to adopt California’s mandate.
The Environmental Protection Agency formally granted California a waiver Wednesday, allowing it to supersede federal vehicle emissions rules with its own, stricter regulations. Under California’s rules, which the state is now empowered to enforce, 35 percent of all model year 2026 cars sold next year must be electric. That share steadily increases every year until 2035 when all new car sales in the state must be electric.
But California’s EV mandate doesn’t just impact the state’s residents. Federal law allows other states to adopt California’s emissions rules that receive a waiver from the EPA. Eleven other states and Washington, D.C.—which are collectively home to 40 percent of all new vehicle registrations—have passed laws adopting California’s electric vehicle mandate.
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