Will Texas & New Mexico Ban Gasoline Powered Cars?

The answer to that question appears to be yes and no. When it comes to Texas and New Mexico banning gas powered cars, one will and one won't.

Yes, you read that right ... gas powered cars may soon be a thing of the past as more and more states are jumping on the band wagon, crusading for a gas engine-less United States of America.

A number of states have enacted plans with the ultimate goal of ending the sale of gasoline powered cars. Those include California, Massachusetts, Colorado, New York, Oregon and the land of enchantment.

So far, it doesn't seem that Texas has any such initiatives planned but New Mexico is about to "run out of gas". They, along with most of the other states, have either adopted California's Advanced Clean Cars II rule, (which seeks to ban new gas powered cars by 2035), or written a similar one of their own.

The deadline in some states is even sooner, Washington, (DC, not state), set theirs at 2030. A full 5 years ahead of most of the other states. Only 8 states have adopted California's plan exactly as it was written. The others all modified it in some way.

Some, like the Clean Cars Minnesota plan, don't ban the sale of gasoline powered vehicles but they do demand that manufacturers reduce emissions considerably and produce more "emission free" cars.

Texas, so far, doesn't have any such plans in mind. In fact, in 2023, Texas initiated a policy banning the banning of gasoline powered engines of any kind.