CA makes illegal the sale of gas-powered cars in 2035. They do not have an infrastructure that can remotely support the needed charging stations.
They will be panicking in 2034, and rushing to build charging stations (and that’ll have to be financed by the state because there won’t be any revenue coming in for a year or so).
Also, Californians, get ready to pay exorbitant fees for charging. And you’ll have little choice of where to go.
Interstate trucks will avoid CA because there will be few gas/diesel stations, and they will charge a lot.
It’s going to be a disaster as can be expected every time you let the government manage something.
“They will be panicking in 2034, and rushing to build charging stations”
California can put a charging station in every house and in every parking space in the state. The key is generating capacity. If the state doesn’t have the electrical generating capacity, it matters not. Replacing fossil fuel generation with solar and wind isn’t going to add much capacity at night when people are home, having dinner, washing clothes and dishes, using a myriad of electronic devices, and trying to recharge the electric cars. In 2019 25% of California’s electric supply was imported from neighboring states.
California does not live in a bubble with respect to water, electric power, or fossil fuel. If other states consume their slack generating capacity with population growth and increase in electric vehicles, those states will have less surplus electricity to sell to California. Does California have any plan to replace its imports with electricity generated inside the state? Will the greens even allow enough capacity to be constructed knowing that wind turbines kill birds and solar panels spoil the land on which they are located? Will other states be willing to build generating capacity specifically for Calfornia?
It will be like “Mad Max” with gang wars fighting over the dwindling supplies of gasoline, after the grid has failed entirely, but California still prohibits the sale of gas.
There you go, thinking ahead again.
Virtually no one in America will be able to afford a car by 2034 and I think a lot sooner.