Japanese automakers face California gasoline regulatory cliff in 2026

Conventional hybrids will not qualify as zero-emission vehicles under new rules

20220826 California cars

California will ban all new sales of gasoline vehicles in 2035. © Reuters

TAKESHI SHIRAISHI, TAKAFUMI HOTTA and NAOSHIGE SHIMIZU, Nikkei staff writers

PALO ALTO, U.S./NEW YORK/TOKYO -- Japanese automobile manufacturers face a new challenge of drastically reducing gasoline vehicles sold in California -- and have less than four years to do it.

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