Going electric: California car mandate would hit mechanics hard

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'I’m not against electric vehicles,' said Jesus Rojas, who immigrated to the Bay Area from Mexico as a teenager and opened his own shop 11 years ago. 'I’ve always loved cars and I’ll work on them until I can’t anymore. So we have to adjust'

The pungent odor of motor oil and grease wafts through the air at JR Automotive in San Francisco as Jesus Rojas lifts the hood of a 2014 Honda Civic to inspect its engine.

, and more than half of those jobs would be lost over the next two decades if the mandate goes into effect, the air board calculates. Some of the loss in the retail sector is due to less expendable income. Electric cars now cost more to purchase, although prices will drop and maintenance will cost far less, saving about $3,200 for the life of a 2026 car and $7,500 for a 2035 car, according to the air board.

Mechanics who work on internal combustion engines would still have plenty of work: The rule would not ban sales of used cars, and it wouldn’t force the state’s residents to stop driving the roughly 29 million gas-powered cars that are already on the road. Californians also could keep importing new or used vehicles from out of state.

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