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California’s plan to support millions of new electric cars is little more than a dream

By Zachary Faria
Published January 19, 2023 9:57pm ET
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California’s plan to support millions of new electric cars is little more than a dream
FILE -- In this Feb. 4, 2015 file photo, a vehicle in the High Occupancy Vehicle lane, on right, passes lines of slow moving cars on Southbound Highway 99 in Sacramento, Calif. | (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

California’s electric car mandate was always a shortsighted political statement with no feasible plan for the future. Given how frequently the state is already scrambling to keep its energy grid running, the state is all but admitting it itself.

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