Lhe measure to be debated on Thursday by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), will formalize the objectives set in September 2020 by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, and which should encourage other States to do the same.
The project, which has “99,9 %” likely to be approved according to one of the CARB members, Daniel Sperling, who spoke to CNN, plans different steps. Both diesel and petrol vehicles are targeted.
“It’s monumental”
Thus in 2026, a third of car sales in California will have to concern vehicles “zero emissions”in other words, only vehicles running on electricity, hydrogen and certain hybrid vehicles, and it will have to be two thirds of sales by 2030.
“It’s monumental”Sperling pointed out. “This is the single most important thing the California Air Quality Bureau has done in the past 30 years. This is important not just for California, but for the country and the world”.
California with its more than 40 million consumers is the largest market in the United States and its standards impact manufacturing across the country.
General Motors has already announced in January 2021 its intention to no longer build cars with polluting emissions by 2035 even if the group has not openly committed to offering only electric vehicles in 13 years.
The highly likely passage of the California measure is expected to come as President Joe Biden signed into law a sweeping climate and health investment plan last week, which includes a $370 billion package to cut emissions. greenhouse effect by 40% by 2030.
In recent years, many countries, especially in Europe, have tried to limit pollution from the automotive sector. The United Kingdom, Singapore and Israel have committed to ending sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, and Norway has made this commitment for 2025.
According to scientists, human activity, in particular the use of fossil fuels, has led to global warming, which has in turn contributed to making extreme weather events more frequent and violent.
According to scientists, one of the solutions to combat this warming therefore consists in limiting polluting emissions from fossil fuels.
