Can California handle moving toward electric-only vehicles? Regulators and companies say yes

California officials are moving ahead with a plan to start banning the sale of gas-powered cars in the next 13 years, but questions remain about how it will happen and if California is ready. The California Air Resources Board approved a plan Thursday to require all new cars, trucks and SUVs to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035. The policy, which is a phased approach, still allows Californians to keep driving gas-powered vehicles and buying used ones, but no new models will be sold in the state. One fifth of automakers’ sales after 2035 could be plug-in hybrids, but the rest must be powered solely by electricity or hydrogen. If the plan is approved, automakers that do not meet that goal could be fined $20,000 per vehicle sold short of that goal.