E-mobility: US President to prevent California's exit from combustion engines
The Californian law for a transition to e-mobility by 2035 has been repealed by the President of the USA. The state is appealing against this.
Skyline of Los Angeles, where the first traffic emission laws were passed over 60 years ago.
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The President of the USA has suspended the phase-out of combustion engines in California. With his signature, he suspended the Californian law that provides for a transition to electric cars by 2035. California immediately lodged an appeal against this in court.
This takes the conflict between the President and Californian Governor Gavin Newsom to another level, after the US government had already ordered the National Guard to intervene against demonstrators in Los Angeles against the wishes of the Californian government. In terms of environmental protection, California has long been a focus of the President's attention; the lifting of the ban on combustion engines was preceded by a weakening of emissions regulations for cars during his first term of office in 2020. President Biden had them repealed immediately.
Successful “Clean Air Act”
California has the strictest federal emissions regulations for cars in the USA. The world's first emissions regulations for cars came from there in the 1960s, after Los Angeles had already had a smog problem caused by road traffic since the 1940s. The state is allowed to issue its regulations based on an exemption, the “Clean Air Act”, which numerous other states have followed to date. After upper limits for harmful exhaust gas components, these were later followed by limits for emissions of the greenhouse gas CO₂ after successful detoxification. These regulations were largely followed in Europe, and later also in China, through locally adapted adoptions.
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As California is the US state with the largest car market, the business of the electric car company Tesla in particular is suffering as a result of the repeal of the electrification plans. Tesla benefited from the emissions regulations not only through the sale of its electric cars, but also from the sale of COâ‚‚ certificates to car manufacturers with a high fleet consumption. The dpa puts the revenue from this business alone in the past quarter at 595 million dollars.
(fpi)