WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- New York will require all new vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday.
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The governor directed the state Department of Environmental Conservation to take the “major regulatory action,” which will impact all new passenger cars, pickup trucks and SUVs sold statewide.
The regulation would require an increasing percentage of new light-duty vehicle sales to be zero-emission, starting with 35% of sales in model year 2026, 68% of sales by 2030, and 100% of sales by 2035.
New pollutant standards for model year 2026 through model year 2034 passenger cars, light-duty trucks and medium-duty vehicles with internal combustion engines would also be required.
Hochul pulled up in an all-electric Chevy Bolt for a Thursday morning press conference at a parking garage in White Plains, where she said the state was working to “accelerate the transition to clean energy vehicles.”
“We’re really putting our foot down on the accelerator and revving up our efforts to make sure we have this transition, not some day in the future, but on a specific date, a specific year—by the year 2035,” the governor said.
She said it will help New York reach its climate requirement of reducing greenhouse gases by 85% by 2050.
Hochul’s announcement—during National Drive Electric Week—comes a month after California approved a similar regulation that will also phase out the sale of new gas-powered passenger cars and trucks by 2035.
“We had to wait for California to take a step because there’s some federal requirement that California had to go first,” Hochul said. “But once they made that decision, we were able to step up immediately and say, ‘Now there’s nothing holding us back.’”
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