A California regulation requiring the historic Balboa Island Ferry in Newport Beach to install electric engines might put them out of business.
The California Air Resources Board, or CARB, is requiring the 104-year-old company to meet zero-emission standards and use electric engines by the end of 2025.
“It’s probably not going to happen. It’s probably impossible,” Seymour Beek, owner of the Balboa Island Ferry, told The Epoch Times.
Beek has been meeting with members of CARB, asking them to postpone the regulation, but such efforts have thus far been unsuccessful.
At this rate, “we [will] stop operating, which is a bad thing for the public and a bad thing for the city of Newport Beach. It’s very popular,” Beek said….