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The Senate totaled California’s signature climate change policy — mandating new cars sold be electric by 2035 — in a 51 to 44 vote Thursday morning. Nearly every Democrat present voted against revoking the EV mandate,
Thursday’s Senate vote to block California’s ban on sales of gas cars is the latest GOP effort to stop state climate policies.
California's EV mandate requires that 35% of all new vehicles sold in the state be electric in 2026, but EV sales were only 25% of the total in 2023 and 2024.