California bans the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035
Mobility — di Andrea Barolini
California governor Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order aimed at a total ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars.
California bans the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035
California governor Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order aimed at a total ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars.
To win the battle against climate change, the world cannot afford to wait. In the western United States, devastated by gigantic wildfires that have been burning millions of hectares of vegetation for weeks, the population is experiencing first-hand the effects of extreme heat and the lack of rainfall. Partly for this reason, California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, has decided to adopt a radical strategy: from 2035, the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines will be banned in the state. Whether they run on diesel or petrol.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday issued an executive order to restrict new car sales in the state to only zero-emission vehicles by 2035 and threw his support behind a ban on the controversial use of hydraulic fracturing by oil companies.
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In California it will only be possible to buy zero-emission vehicles
The only vehicles that can be purchased at dealerships will be zero-emission ones. That is, hydrogen electric vehicles and, in part, hybrids. It is estimated that in this way local CO2 emissions could fall by 35 per cent, while those of nitrogen oxides could fall by 80 per cent. With enormous benefits from the point of view of pollution.
"For too many decades," Newsom stated, "we have allowed cars to pollute the air our children breathe. It is not normal for Californians to have to worry about cars causing their children asthma. Road traffic should not be making wildfires worse. Cars should not be contributing to the melting of glaciers, raising sea levels and thereby threatening our coastlines."
California will ban the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in 15 years, establishing a timeline in the nation's most populous state that could force U.S. automakers to shift their zero-emission efforts into overdrive. www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/202…
Governor Newsom counts on a drop in the price of clean cars
The executive order was signed on Wednesday 23 September. It calls on the agency that oversees air quality in California to put forward a piece of legislation imposing the ban. According to Newsom, the decision will also help drive innovation in the automotive sector, developing clean engines and enabling a fall in prices.