Gov. Gavin Newsom unveils his 2025-2026 revised budget on 5/14/25 (Photo: ca.gov.ca)
Defiance: Gov. Newsom Signs Executive Order Confirming State Commitment To Electric Vehicles
Trump administration just killed Newsom’s EV mandate earlier in the day
By Evan Symon, June 13, 2025 2:45 am
California Governor Gavin Newsom remained stubborn Thursday, signing an executive order advancing California’s electric vehicle transition despite his 2035 new gas powered car sales ban mandate having been shut down by the Trump administration earlier in the day.
According to Newsom’s new executive order, the state will advance development of next-generation policies to spur innovation, update state vehicle purchasing requirements, and direct the state to create new actions to accelerate affordable clean vehicle adoption. The order specifically highlighted environmental protections, wanting to grow the electric car industry in the state, and increasing the number of EV jobs as reasons to advance EV development.
Specifically, the order will do the following for EV development:
- Reaffirms the state’s commitment to zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) deployment
- Initiates the development of Advanced Clean Cars III regulation to advance new strategies for emissions reduction
- Updates state purchasing requirements to align with manufacturers that continue complying with clean car regulations
- Prioritizes funding for state incentive programs for clean manufacturers and fleets
- Continues Clean Truck Partnership work and requires reports on progress every six months
- Directs state agencies to assess additional actions for ZEV adoption and issue recommendations within 60 days, including strategies for consumer protection, infrastructure, voluntary efforts, and local partnerships
However, in a statement, it was clear that the primary reason for Newsom issuing the order was a way to get back at the Trump administration for killing the 2035 mandate, which was one of his signature mandates.
“We won’t let this illegal action by Trump and Republicans in the pockets of polluters stand in the way of commonsense policy to clean our air, protect the health of our kids and compete on the global stage,” said Newsom on Thursday. “I’m signing an executive order to keep California on track with our world-leading transition to cleaner cars.”
A new EO for Newsom
The order capped off a hectic day for EV vehicles in California. Before noon, President Donald Trump signed off on three resolutions, officially eliminating California’s 2035 new gas powered car sales ban mandate and fulfilling an inauguration day promise.
“Under the previous administration, the federal government gave left-wing radicals in California dictatorial powers to control the future of the entire car industry,” said Trump earlier in the day. “They approved Governor Gavin Newscum’s ridiculous plan to impose a 100% ban on all new gas powered cars within a very short period of time. Today we’re saving California, and we’re saving our entire country from a disaster. We officially rescue the US auto industry from destruction by terminating California’s electric vehicle mandate, once and for all.”
Nevertheless, Newsom, along with Attorney General Bonta, challenged the resolutions with a lawsuit, with the suit effectively being a last ditch chance to block the federal government from ending the mandate and allowing Californians to buy new gas-powered cars in-state past 2035.
“Trump’s all-out assault on California continues – and this time he’s destroying our clean air and America’s global competitiveness in the process,” expressed Newsom in a statement. “We are suing to stop this latest illegal action by a President who is a wholly-owned subsidiary of big polluters.”
This then led the Newsom administration to release the Executive Order.
California electric vehicle sales have been down in the last few years, with the most recent data from Q1 2025 showing that 23% of all new car sales in the state were electric. While significant, the number is nowhere near where the mandate goal of 35% by 2026 was set up to be at. And with the mandate now effectively ended, the suit and executive order are likely some of his last attempts for the state to be close to the 35% figure by the time he leaves office in around a year and a half.
As of Thursday evening, the Trump administration has yet to respond to Newsom’s new executive order.
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“Trump’s all-out assault on California continues . . .” And that’s a good thing.
More please!
Yes, MORE ——- we love it
Enough of this angry newsome always dictating how its going to be .
we have had enough of his garbage .
Just like a communist dictator, Newsolini triples down!
Who needs a sword when you have the mighty pen? One way or another he will get the peasants to do as he says.
This guy is losing it, he looks unwell. Thank God he will never become President.
Ironically, the marxists will be marching on Saturday for No Kings Day, yet they worship the likes of Newsom the wannabe dictator.
His minion Karen Bass’s past is now being exposed. Communism anyone?
These two are out to destroy not only this state but the entire country. This is a cancer. They want a color revolution!
https://www.frontpagemag.com/l-a-mayor-karen-bass-and-cuban-intelligence/
P.S. Newsom is a class A JERK.
I thought the democrats didn’t like kings? Let the people vote on the electric car mandate. I’m sure i
What a ridiculous, smug, idiotic, puffed-up, delusional horse’s ass the Worst Governor Ever (Gavin Newsom) is. He never disappoints, does he. And no one around him will dare to tell him how he comes off. But we knew that already, didn’t we. Pathetic.
Hair-gel Hitler Newsom’s EV decree is really his commitment to the agenda of his deep-state WEF globalist and CCP masters. It’s a failure like he is.
Last night, I observed the Guber kneading all profound and universal meaning of Breyer’s decision until he spun out of touch with all reality, like a sparrow colliding off the antenna of moving vehicle.
Founding fathers, 10th Amendment, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Gruesome has the tiniest of extremely temporary “wins” and in a flash gets on his self-righteous soapbox broadcast and makes a laughable fool of himself. He thinks he is ticking the opposition off when he does that stuff; little does he know that we support him being a clown when he has the national spotlight, so every single U.S. citizen can clearly see what a red-bulb-nosed, giant-shoed, tiny bicycle-riding, horn honking, circus clown of a governor we have here in the once-functional, once-Golden, once-clean, once-beautiful, once-prosperous State of California.
What an absolute moron. This dude has stage IV TDS and is crashing out big time. Honestly, he should keep it up as it only underscores how terrible he is and the rest of his party.
so, he calls the president a king because of his executive orders, but it’s okay for him to be a king? Give me a break.
Gavin may not even know he is doing this. Who knows:
“Psychological projection – definition”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Oh, also, as you probably already know, all the Usual Suspect Dem-Marxists, including Gavin Newsom himself, have been sending out fund-raising emails like crazy over this and also over Alex Padilla’s fake theatrical meltdown and righteous takedown. The maudlin whimpering I heard from some of them this morning is embarrassingly fake, but it’s also funny.
Silly, desperate Democrat politicians!
I think I’ll go to a “No Kings” protest with a sign that says, “King Newsom Needs to Step Down”.