{"id":179215,"date":"2025-09-30T03:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179215\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T03:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:52:23","slug":"quebec-government-lifts-planned-2035-ban-on-gas-powered-vehicle-sales-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179215\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec government lifts planned 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicle sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">MONTREAL \u2014 The Quebec government is lifting a ban on the sale of gas-powered cars that would have taken effect in 2035.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Environment Minister Bernard Drainville says the decision will give industry a break and Quebecers more choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">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 class=\"yf-1090901\">Quebec adopted the regulation banning gas-powered vehicle sales in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">But Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault has spoken recently about the possibility of pausing certain environmental policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">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<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 26, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 The Quebec government is lifting a ban on the sale of gas-powered cars that would have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[73395,49,48,295,63778,91007,49412,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-179215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-bernard-drainville","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-francois-legault","13":"tag-gas-powered","14":"tag-quebec-government","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179215","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=179215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}