https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/05/22/senate-votes-to-kill-california-electric-car-mandate/ > The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to block California’s first-in-the-nation regulations that would ban the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles statewide in 2035, setting up a certain legal battle over the future of electric cars in the United States. > By a vote of 50-44, the Republican-led chamber voted to revoke permission that  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration had given to California to set the rules.