Your morning catch-up: Californians refuse to give up their gas cars, this SoCal heat wave could be hottest of the year and more big stories
On the hood of an electric car, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Sept. 23, 2020, requiring all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035.
Your morning catch-up: Californians refuse to give up their gas cars, this SoCal heat wave could be hottest of the year and more big storiesof the state. Californians suffered from terrible air quality, struggling to breathe amid the COVID-19 pandemic as a sooty plume In the midst of that chaos, Gov.
Gavin Newsom, citing the urgent need to address the climate crisis and cut air pollution, issued ancome up with a plansuch a plan in 2022, with Newsom saying: “It’s ambitious. It’s innovative. It’s the action we must take if we’re serious about leaving this planet better off for future generations. ” Today, per the PPIC poll, most Republicans and independents oppose Newsom’s order.
Democrats are evenly split. Opposition is especially high in inland areas such as the pollution-ridden Central Valley, where 74% opposed the order. The highest support came from the Los Angeles region, with 40% in favor .
, residents are not convinced there will be enough charging stations to handle a huge surge in electric vehicles, even though the state now hasThe PPIC poll, per Skelton, found “plenty of contradiction and hypocrisy in the divided minds of Californians,” who “strongly favor fighting climate change — at least in concept — until it adversely affects them directly. ”requiring all electricity to come from renewable sources by 2045, per the poll.
But fewer than 4 in 10 said they were willing to pay extra for clean energy. PPIC polling director Mark Baldassare, who owns an electric vehicle, told Skelton he was struck by “the disconnect between what people support in policies and what they’re prepared to do. ” “Two things are going on in California now,” he added.
“People have their long-standing concerns about the environment. But they also have immediate concerns about affordability. ”Nearly a year after the expiration of a $7,500 federal tax incentive for new electric vehicles and $4,000 on used ones, Newsom, in his Eligible buyers will receive $3,500 off new EVs and $1,750 off used ones. Unlike the federal tax credits that expired in September, the incentives offer an instant discount and don’t require buyers to apply for credit later.
The state and auto manufacturers will split the cost of the incentives. California leads the country in EV sales, though the PPIC poll shows mixed views about them, with 12% of residents saying they own one and 33% say they have seriously considered purchasing one — and 54% saying they had not considered buying one. The governor’s press office in an email declined to comment on the PPIC survey, saying it does not typically comment on polls.
, Newsom said Californians purchased 86,857 new zero-emission vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, representing 19% of new car sales. Demand for such vehicles, the governor’s office said, grew as gasoline prices skyrocketed amid the war with Iran.
“While Donald Trump makes Americans pay the bill for his Iran war at the pump, California is giving families the freedom to choose a cheaper way forward by going electric,” Newsom said in the statement, adding that “we built the largest electric car market in America, and we’re not stopping now. ”Exacerbating the misery will be the lack of cooling temperatures overnight. The L.A. Basin may see low temperatures of only about 70 degrees.
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