Typical liberal/leftist short-sightedness when it comes to unintended consequences. So it's 2035, and you can either pay a premium for that zero emissions car, and start looking for charging stations etc. ... Or you can buy that medium duty truck, that the manufacturers have thoughtfully equipped to have all the features and ride comfort of nice car. Sure, the medium duty truck is big and heavy and gets poor gas mileage. But it is familiar, it avoids all the charging problems you've been hearing about, and then there was the big hack of XYZ's electric vehicles in 2032 that scared everyone...
Prediction - the net effect will be *more* emissions, not less. This will provide incentives to use bigger trucks to avoid the law. Power generation still comes mostly from fossil fuels, so we'll have the reduced efficiencies there of burning, converting, transmitting, converting, storing, utilizing... SMH...
Interesting reasoning, considering:
I’ve noticed that in NY, personal trucks/SUVs are rare ... while in GA, they make up 2/3rds of everything on the roads. NY has already made it unpalatable to “buy that medium duty truck”.
Which leads to my recurring observation in many circumstances: when one is relentlessly told they can do nothing right, one becomes inclined to doing the single thing they know they can do right - nothing.
NY has made gas-guzzlers and high-emission vehicles prohibitively expensive to drive.
NY is making sedans & smaller cars outright illegal to sell.
NY geography & weather is not friendly to electric vehicles (and I’m an EV enthusiast) nor mass transit nor individual vehicles (motorcycles, bicycles, etc).
That leaves transportation options of ... nothing.