# California is set to ban gasoline cars by 2035

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2022-08-24
**Categories:** california, electric-vehicles, environment, ev, ev-transition, gasoline-cars, mobility, new-york-times
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/california-is-set-to-ban-gasoline-cars-by-2035

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According to this recent New York Times article, 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. 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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