{"id":1649828,"date":"2022-09-20T18:51:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T22:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649828"},"modified":"2022-09-20T18:52:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T22:52:51","slug":"california-regulator-sees-2035-ev-mandate-as-sweet-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-regulator-sees-2035-ev-mandate-as-sweet-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"California regulator sees 2035 EV mandate as \u2018sweet spot\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-regulator-sees-2035-ev-mandate-as-sweet-spot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649828&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By David Shepardson<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) \u2013     California\u2019s choice of 2035 as the deadline to end gasoline-only new car sales was the \u201csweet spot\u201d that will sharply cut emissions but was also realistic for the industry, the head of the state\u2019s clean air regulator said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to be cognizant of where the automakers are, where the supply chains are, where the production facilities are,\u201d California Air Resources Board (CARB) chair Liane Randolph told Reuters in an interview during Climate Week, a summit that takes place alongside the U.N. General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like we landed at the sweet spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In August, CARB said it would require all new vehicles sold in California by 2035 to be electric or plug-in hybrid electrics (PHEVs) after Governor Gavin Newsom issued a 2020 executive order directing the move. CARB said the rules will reduce smog-causing pollution from light-duty vehicles by 25% by 2037 and result in 9.5 million fewer conventional vehicles sold by 2035.  Automakers in 2035 can sell no more than 20% of models as PHEVs. <\/p>\n<p>California was not as aggressive as some environmental groups wanted, or Tesla, which urged ending new gas-powered vehicles by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course an EV-only automaker is going to want as high a standard as possible because that is going to create a market for their credits,\u201d Randolph said.<\/p>\n<p>California needs a waiver from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt the 2035 rules, which will open the request for public comment. \u201cObviously it\u2019s their decision to make but I mean that\u2019s why the waiver exists. So California can move forward and protect its residents,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has called for 50% of all new vehicle sales by 2030 to be EVs or plug-in hybrids but not endorsed a phase-out date.<\/p>\n<p>Some states that previously adopted California\u2019s zero emission vehicle rules have not yet signed on for the tougher 2035 phase-out date. A spokesman for Colorado\u2019s environmental agency told Reuters, \u201cColorado is certainly not California and Colorado has our own plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Randolph said \u201csome states are ready right now\u201d to adopt 2035 while others will \u201cget more comfortable as the models continue to roll out.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>She said the regulator has other transportation emissions reductions in the works on medium- and heavy-duty trucks and for in-state locomotives. Randolph added the state is \u201cworking really hard on looking at the Imperial Valley as a potential source of lithium\u201d for EVs.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by David Shepardson, Editing by Rosalba O\u2019Brien)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/california-regulator-sees-2035\/file-photo-electric-cars-sit-charging-in-a-parking-garage\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8J166-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8J166-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Shepardson NEW YORK (Reuters) \u2013 California\u2019s choice of 2035 as the deadline to end gasoline-only new car sales was the \u201csweet spot\u201d that will sharply cut emissions but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/california-regulator-sees-2035\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california-regulator-sees-2035","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}