But the results offer a note of caution for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who directed the California Air Resources Board to start writing new vehicle emissions rules after Republicans revoked the state’s sales mandates for cars and heavy-duty trucks in June.

This hostility has manifested in the removal of the $7500 EV tax credit subsidy as of next month, and a strangling of California's autonomous emissions policies. But an end to federal electric vehicle subsidies shouldn't signal defeat,

State officials delivered a report to Gov. Gavin Newsom that makes the case for how California could counteract the Trump administration's withdrawal of federal support for electric vehicles.