It’s Official: Generator Ban Passes in California

RV Miles ^ | December 10, 2021 | Staff

[absalom01]

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed a regulation aimed at “Small Off-Road Engines” on Thursday that will ban the sale of portable generators in the state — which includes generators mounted in recreational vehicles.

The ruling bans the sale of gas-powered leaf blowers and lawnmowers in the state beginning in 2024. Portable generators will be required to meet more stringent standards in 2024 and meet zero-emission standards starting in 2028.

In the 2024 model year, portable generators will have to improve their efficiency by somewhere between 40% and 90%, which seems unrealistic in such a short period of time, so the reality is, it will be very hard to find a generator in Calfornia in two years.

[Red Badger]

I guess they never figured that a gas generator can run on HYDROGEN gas................

[nesnah]

Construction crews are not going to like this.

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Helluva good point. Generators are all over the place on any type of construction site.

[Safrguns]

They are so screwed! How do they enforce this???

[know.your.why]

Getting what they paid for.

[ealgeone]

Just wait until the Big One hits and power is needed.

[llevrok]

It’s the end of garden bag pipes (leaf blowers) as we know it.....

[ArcadeQuarters]

People actually voted for these guys.

[Army Air Corps]

I like the way that you think, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[Drango]

Cow farts? Don’t they care about cow farts???

[ealgeone]

Except our “betters”. They’ll hide the generators in auxiliary buildings. You know they aren’t going without.

[llevrok]

Construction crews are not going to like this.

They should all use battery operated equipment charged by solar and wind turbines, silly.

[ealgeone]

Give’em time.

[dsrtsage]

Most positive sign in my lifetime that the San Andreas fault is fixin’ to go snap

[llevrok]

Years ago when Washington state Governor Dimslee was elected, he ordered all gas powered leaf blowers and trimmers off the crapital campus grounds.

So electric ones were purchased (lots of them). They did not have the power nor ability to run for very long. Within a few months, I noticed the gas ones were back.

[Chode]

when generators are outlawed...

[T. Rustin Noone]

Add Hospitals to your long list of industries that will not appreciate being tied solely to the unreliable California electric grid.

[llevrok]

Take the worst that a HOA board can do, and you have the current California legislature.

That's the best description I've seen of any Democrat controlled legislature!!

[wally_bert]

Any manufacturing that can leave CA had better.

Let them do without.

[realcleanguy]

Yes, the rich have unlimited power. The poor and middle class are at the mercy of the powerful rich

[beethovenfan]

From now on they must be electric (heehee)