California loves its electric vehicles (VE). More than 2.1 million cars driven by batteries circulate through the State and, in the past autumn, more than a quarter of the new models were electric. Legislators try to ensure that the future gives even more. In December, the so -called “Golden State” received a special US government permit to promulgate regulations that would force car manufacturers to sell only new zero emissions models by 2035.
As federal “exemption” should be extended far beyond the borders of California; Another 17 states have declared that they will follow the example in terms of stricter emission standards, and 11 of them aim at the progressive removal of gas cars in 2035. Together, these demarcations total more than 40% of light vehicle enrollments in the US.
An old fight
Last week, In an executive order of broad scope aimed at green energy policies, the Trump administration mentioned that it would seek to “end” state emission exemptions “They function as limitations for the sale of gasoline cars.” Although this order is only a political messaging document with force of law, it highlights Trump’s intentions with clean vehicles in California. Whoever wins this battle will determine the future of them not only in the US, but also worldwide, given the number of models sold and manufactured in the country.
The Trump administration has not yet mentioned the revocation of the exemption, but California ensures that it will not reverse its standards of strict emissions of VE: “The State will continue to defend its right and obligation to protect the health of its residents,” he wrote in A statement Liane Randolph, the president of the California Emissions Regulatory Agency, the Air Resources Board.
If all this sounds familiar to you, it is because the country has already gone through this before. The permission to California dates back to 1967, when the Congress granted a special exemption within the national regulations on air because the State had a serious problem of air pollution And because he had been a pioneer in regulation, creating his own regulations on vehicle emissions for more than a decade. Since then, California has requested more than 100 exemptions.
In 2019, President Donald Trump tweeted that his administration would revoke the exemption of California that allowed him to establish his own automobile emission standards. He added that the measure would increase the safety of cars and create many jobs. But even when the first Trump administration sought to withdraw the permission from California, state legislators reached an agreement with four global car manufacturers: Ford, Volkswagen, Honda and BMW, to preserve some automobile emissions standards.
Six years ago, manufacturers were willing to sit at the table and talk because they feared a market in which they had to manufacture two vehicle sets: a cleaner fleet for the Californian market and its allies, and another for the rest of the country. The golden state is large enough for even foreign manufacturers to be attentive to the results.
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The aggressive posture of the State regarding climate regulation would force car manufacturers lagging for running electrification to catch up. For example, Toyota has argued that consumers are not prepared for battery electric and has followed a strategy that has led him to produce more hybrid vehicles and plug -in hybrids. Last year, a Toyota Motor North America executive declared that California’s standards “seem impossible.” But maintaining that regulation in force would force Toyota to invest more in the circulation of electric vehicles.
The Biden administration granted the exemption in 2022. Last year, it approved a new program for California: over the course of a decade, the State could increase the proportion of zero emissions cars sold. According to the standards, 35% of the 2026 models must be zero emissions and 68% of the 2030 models must achieve that goal. According to the State, the rules will reduce in a quarter the emissions of light vehicles from here to 2037. Thus, car manufacturers will be able to design plug -in and also electric hybrid vehicles to achieve their objectives.
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