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This is only for new-car sales. Doesn't keep you from buying or owning a used ICE vehicle.
California has been the leader in emission regulation and fuel economy legislation. It was gradually being adopted by many other states including most of the population centers in the NE USA. The regulations drove the manufacturers to build cleaner cars when many insisted it couldn't be done, or that performance would suffer. So now we sell BMWs with over 600-hp that meet those standards. How was that bad? If not for the regulations our climate would be far worse, but now we're backsliding as the current administration in DC seeks to rollback any and all legislation done under Obama, without regard for how it hurst the citizens of the country unless they happen to be business owners. That's short-sighted and harmful to our world and the impact is felt far beyond our borders.
I'll keep the ICE stick-shift cars I have. I'll likely be dead by the time these regulations would have any affect on me. But my grandchildren (should I have any) will be the beneficiaries of this forward thinking.
Now lets figure out how to make ALL electric power from the sun and the wind.
I do wonder if this will affect the hydrogen-powered vehicle development. Give enough sunlight and water, you can produce hydrogen without environmental impact and burn it in an ICE with no emission beyond water vapor. It all boils down to how we support the infrastructure to distribute electric and hydrogen
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