# California is set to ban gasoline cars by 2035

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2022-08-24

california, electric-vehicles, environment, ev, ev-transition, gasoline-cars, mobility, new-york-times

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According to [this recent New York Times article](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/climate/california-gas-cars-emissions.html), California is set to put into effect a new mandate that would require 100% of passenger vehicle sales in the state to be fully electric by 2035. Included within this mandate are also interim targets: 35% of all sales by 2026 and 68% of all sales by 2030.

When I first read the article, my first thought was: "Isn't 2035 kind of far away? Can't we do this sooner?" And this is usually how my mind works when I see some date in the future. But then I remembered that EV sales last year in the US only totaled [somewhere around 5% of all sales](https://electriccarsreport.com/2022/01/u-s-ev-sales-hit-new-record-in-fourth-quarter-of-2021/).

So there is work to be done, and mandates like this will certainly help. As I understand it, this will be the first mandate of its kind in the US and also one of the strictest in the world. A lot of other countries have simply set targets, rather than all-out bans.

This is what it means to lead. You do things before others.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/california-is-set-to-ban-gasoline-cars-by-2035)*