The state achieved its goal of reaching 1.5 million electric vehicles sold in California two years ahead of schedule, with nearly $2 billion in incentives distributed to Californians to help make the transition more affordable.
This was announced this Friday by the governor Gavin Newsom, who recalled that in 2012, then-Governor Jerry Brown set the goal of reaching that level of sales by 2025.
This year, 21 percent of all new cars sold in California have been ZEVs, while nationally, the state accounted for 40 percent of all new car sales.
“California is setting the standard for climate action, and we are achieving our goals years ahead of schedule thanks to unprecedented investments secured in partnership with the Legislature. We are making real progress on the world's most ambitious plan to end the tailpipe so our children and grandchildren are left with a cleaner, healthier planet," Newsom said.
And earlier this month, the Governor applauded the Biden-Harris Administration for proposing new federal emissions standards that effectively require half of all cars sold in the US to be zero-emission vehicles—ZEVs, for their acronym in English? by 2030, calling it a "great day for America."
Also today, in an effort to bolster the state's EV charging infrastructure, California announced a new Joint Statement of Intent among various state departments and agencies to help guide planning for energy supply, facilities, grid development , as well as EV chargers and hydrogen stations.
And it is that, according to ZEB records in the state: 21.1 percent of all new cars sold this year in California were ZEVs, according to the California Energy Commission; in the first quarter of this year, 124 thousand 053 electric cars were sold; and to date, 1,523,966 total ZEV sales have been sold in California.
California passed one of the world's first regulations last year requiring 100 percent of new car sales to be ZEVs by 2035, following Governor Newsom's 2020 executive order to develop new rules for sales in the state. .
The US EPA last month approved California's plan to require nearly half of all new heavy-duty trucks to be zero emissions by 2035.
ZEVs are a top export from the state of California, which is also home to 55 ZEV and ZEV-related manufacturers.
The $2.9 billion investment plan approved by the California Energy Commission in December accelerates California's electric vehicle charging and hydrogen refueling goals by 2025.
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