California has, for a long time, set more restrictive guidelines on emissions than the federal government. The other is that the auto companies have to comply with California's regulations. And in many cases, what they have had to produce for California, they have ended up selling in other parts of the country.
As California watches the impact of rising temperatures devastate its environment with brutal heat waves and raging fires, the state is taking increasingly far-reaching steps to combat climate change.
One of those measures — banning the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035 — could prove a turning point for the transition to electric vehicles.
Guest: Neal E. Boudette, an automotive correspondent for The New York Times.
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