{"id":171933,"date":"2025-09-27T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/171933\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:00:13","slug":"quebec-government-lifts-planned-2035-ban-on-gas-powered-vehicle-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/171933\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec government lifts planned 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicle sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quebec government is lifting a ban on the sale of gas-powered cars that would have taken effect in 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Bernard Drainville says the decision will give industry a break and Quebecers more choice.<\/p>\n<p>Now the government&#8217;s target is for 90 per cent of new vehicle sales in 2035 be hybrid or electric, down from 100 per cent fully electric.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec adopted the regulation banning gas-powered vehicle sales in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But Premier Francois Legault has spoken recently about the possibility of pausing certain environmental policies.<\/p>\n<p>He also wants to speed up approvals for major projects with legislation similar to a federal law aimed at accelerating projects in the national interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Quebec government is lifting a ban on the sale of gas-powered cars that would have taken effect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-171933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}