(New York) New York State, following California, has officially begun the process to ban the sale of new, high-emitting passenger vehicles by 2035, Governor Kathy Hochul announced Thursday.
Posted yesterday at 2:40 p.m.
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 during a press conference.
It can now take the next step and has asked its 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 that 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.
“We have intermediate stages to reach, in order to show that we are on the right track”, underlined Mme Hochul.
Many countries have been trying in recent years to limit pollution from the automotive sector.
The United Kingdom, Singapore and Israel have committed to ending 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 a decree in the summer of 2021 setting the goal that by 2030 half of the cars sold in the United States will be emission-free.
Sales of electric-only vehicles in the country, for a long time lagging behind Europe in this segment, have jumped in recent months and accounted for 5.6% of vehicle sales in the second quarter, according to Cox Automotive.