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The details on this are not promising:
Nearly 23% of new vehicles sold in California in 2025 were considered zero-emission vehicles, though EV sales were down in the state and across the U.S. compared to the year prior.
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In the fourth quarter of 2025, only 18% of new cars sold in the state were zero-emission.
It needs to be 100% in the not-very-distant future, and that’s going to be really tough without a sharp reduction in prices, which isn’t likely to happen due to tariffs pushing prices up.
That’s great as a start. It’s not nearly enough, and cars aren’t even the actual solution, but Americans have carbrains engrained in society.
cali needed fast railway like a decade ago, to connect biotech, tech hubs so these jobs can be easily reached from the major cities.
There are like… 5 corridors across the country that have needed it for a while. There also have been many tenable plans that were always sunk in committee or DOA because it would cut into politician’s owners’ (automobile industrial complex) pockets.