Several intermediate objectives have been set by the Governor of New York State. Thus, gasoline-powered vehicles will have to represent less than two-thirds of new vehicle sales in four years.
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New York State, following California, has officially begun the process to ban the sale of new, high-emitting passenger vehicles by 2035. This was announced by Governor Kathy Hochul, Thursday, September 29. The official had already set this goal last year but had to wait, for legal reasons, for California to pass its own law, which it did in August, she explained at a press conference.
Kathy Hochul can now take the next step and has asked her services to prepare the appropriate texts, with in particular intermediate objectives for 2026 (35% of sales) and 2030 (68% of sales) before reaching 100% of sales in 2035.
By this date, all city cars, sedans, SUVs and pick-ups carrying passengers will have to be “zero emissions”, i.e. electric, plug-in hybrid or hydrogen vehicles. The text would effectively ban petrol and diesel vehicles. At the same time, the regulations must gradually tighten the emission standards for combustion engine vehicles.
Many countries have been trying in recent years to limit pollution from the automotive sector. The European Parliament thus recorded in June the end of the sale of new thermal vehicles from 2035.
The United Kingdom, Singapore and Israel have thus pledged to end sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, and Norway has made this commitment for 2025. US President Joe Biden for his part signed to the summer of 2021 an executive order setting a goal that by 2030 half of the cars sold in the United States will be emission-free.