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Requires 35% of sales to be electric by 2026

The proposed regulations are pretty complex, but it appears to also have a transitional strategy where PHEVs (plug-in hybrids) can count as ZEVs for this quota. During the transition years, the rules shift in terms of requiring more battery-only range from the PHEV to count as one ZEV, with a way to have lesser range PHEVs count as a fractional ZEV in the fleet. E.g. they require 70 miles of range for full credits, and partial credits for 43 miles of range.

I can't speak to economic feasibility, but with the Toyota RAV4 being one of the most popular cars in the US and already being available as a PHEV, it doesn't seem that far-fetched to have these kinds of vehicles becoming a large portion of those sold.

That's an extremely high percentage, is it possible?

It's almost exactly a linear extension of the trend from 2020 to now.

Even if that's true, it's just tracking EV availability. At some point if EV availability can't keep up, what happens?

it simply is not because EV cars are far out of reach for most Americans. Unless they are providing upto 95% subsidy most will not sell their ICE cars and will keep buying used ICE cars

In fact this type of virtue signaling only hurts the people on the fringes because now the ICE car market and dealers will just cite this ban to markup their cars even more on top of the supply chain excuse.

This is a "let them eat cake" moment on already widened wealth gap. The people at the top sure do care more about these things than their fellow Americans who are barely above the poverty line.

As if people who can't afford EVs buy brand new cars.

This isn't banning the sale of ICE cars on the secondary market.

Your comment is classicist. People finance their cars and most EVs are far far above what you would get with an entry level cars. Now those market including secondary market are going to see a rise in prices.

Just more wokeness to destroy California.

This is not true where I live. The cheapest electric cars here are only about 20% more than the cheapest entry level cars, and loans have better terms for electric, making the monthly cost almost the same. I am not sure how true it is in California, but even if it is, it clearly doesn't have to be.

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