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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an order that aims to end the sale of new gasoline and diesel-powered passenger cars by 2035. A 1990 mandate which was unsuccessful required 2% of new cars sold in California by 1998 to be zero-emission vehicles. “What’s different this time is technology and product availability,” said Michael Wara, director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University’s Woods Institute. “There are products on the market that people want to buy.”