Gavin Newsom: “Over a quarter of all new car purchases in California are…”

“It was because of the regulations, because of those signals and the subsidies, over $3.2 billion direct subsidies that Tesla received just in my state alone that built this market. Over a quarter of all new car purchases in California are alternative fuel vehicles. What changes what Trump has just done. And with respect, some of the automobile manufacturers is they've ceded this to China. They've ceded our competitiveness to China.” (16:01–16:07)

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