Maryland Joins California in Banning Gas-Powered Car Sales After 2035

Last year, California became the first state in the U.S. to announce plans to phase out the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles. In the coming years, automakers will be required to increase the proportion of zero-emissions passenger vehicles they sell to 35 percent by 2026 and 68 percent by 2030. By 2035, that number will rise to 100 percent. And like a number of other states, Maryland will now be following California’s lead, enacting a nearly identical internal-combustion phase-out.

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The Hill reports that Governor Wes Moore announced yesterday that Maryland would adopt the Advanced Clean Cars II rule. The Maryland Department of the Environment also presented the proposal to the Air Quality Control Advisory Council, which voted in support of proposing a new regulation to implement the new standards. This announcement comes after both Oregon and Washington recently voted to adopt the new rules.

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