New York advanced a plan Thursday to require all new vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emissions by 2035, state Gov. Kathy Hochul said.
After signing the law last year, while California must wait because of federal law to pass its own legislation, Hochul declared that officials are keeping their “foot down on the accelerator.”
California ruled in August that a growing percentage of new cars sold to the state’s 40 million residents must produce no tailpipe pollutants until a complete ban in 2035.
After that decision, Hochul directed New York officials to take regulatory steps to ensure that all new passenger cars, pickup trucks and SUVs sold in the state have zero emissions by 2035.
The directive sets an interim target of 35 percent of sales by 2026 and 68 percent by 2030.
“We actually have benchmarks to show that we’re on the way to getting there,” Hochul said in a speech in the city of White Plains.
The rules will also gradually tighten emission standards for vehicles with internal combustion engines.
To offset the cost of EVs, Hochul announced more funding for a rebate program for buyers and advances in the state’s charging infrastructure.
The state will get $175 million (roughly Rs. 1,430 crore) from the federal government for its charging network.
California and New York have joined jurisdictions around the world that have turned to the polluting automobile sector in recent years to combat climate change.
Britain, Singapore and Israel are eyeing 2030, while the European Union wants to end sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035.
Last year, the Associated Press reported that US President Joe Biden had announced a commitment by the auto industry to make up half of US sales to electric vehicles by the end of the decade, while declaring that America must “move fast” to win. The world’s carmaking future.
