Seventeen states face weighty decisions on California’s electric car mandate
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On Saturday, Seventeen states with vehicle emission standards tied to rules established in California face heavy decisions on whether to follow that state’s strictest-in-nation new rules that need all new cars, pickups, and SUVs to be electric or hydrogen-powered by 2035, WDIO reports.
The states under the Clean Air Act must abide by the federal government’s standard vehicle emissions standards unless they at least partially choose to follow California’s stricter requirements.
Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Vermont are amongst them who expected for adopting California’s ban on new gasoline-fueled vehicles. Colorado and Pennsylvania are among the states that probably won’t.
In Minnesota, the legal ground is a bit dull where the state’s Clean Cars rule has been a political minefield and the subject of a legal fight. Meanwhile, Republicans are rebelling in Virginia, WDIO reports.
The Minnesota Auto Dealers Association says that it’s reading of state and federal law is that the latest California rules kick in automatically in the state, and it’s making that case in court as it attempts to block them.
The trade group’s president, Scott Lambert said that the technology is such that the vehicles just don’t perform that well in cold weather. He further says that we don’t all live in southern California.
