- Jennifer Granholm, President Biden’s Energy Secretary, said she supports California’s plan to eliminate gas-powered vehicles.
- Granholm: “I think California really is leaning in, and of course the federal government has a goal … by 2030 that half of the vehicles in the US, the new ones sold, would be electric.”
- But northern states say electric vehicles are unreliable. “We don’t all live in southern California,” said Scott Lambert, president of the Minnesota Auto Dealers Association.