Posted on 05/06/2022 5:08:53 PM PDT by CedarDave
New Mexicans will see thousands more electric vehicles available to buy in 2025 when a rule approved by two environmental boards takes effect.
Dubbed the clean-car rule, it will require that electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids make up at least 7 percent of automakers’ new sales within New Mexico — adding up to an estimated 3,800 vehicles.
The rule aligns with California's current standards and is part of the larger effort to cut climate-warming greenhouse gases as well as ground-level ozone and particulates that can cause respiratory problems.
It will undergo a two-year waiting period to allow manufacturers, car dealers and regulators to prepare, and then take effect in the 2026 model year, which is January 2025.
The state Environmental Improvement Board and the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board voted unanimously Thursday to adopt the rule.
Electric vehicle advocates and conservationists called the rule an important step in offering people alternatives to fossil-fuel cars.
The prospect of New Mexico aligning with California as it toughens mandates concerned some local dealers, who didn't think they should be forced to carry a certain volume of electric cars, and a farming advocate who argued the push to replace gas-powered cars with more costly electric ones will cause financial hardship in rural communities.
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They are digging the economic pit deeper.
Given the rampant supply chain problems, I would say that 7% of nothing is still nothing.
Electric cars are about limiting people’s movements.
It is to get as many people as possible to cluster in a specific area so they can be easily controlled.
I was in NM in 2005. So much of the state is spread-out desert. You would only need to worry about pollution in Albuquerque and maybe Santa Fe.
How can an individual, buying personal property, hit 7% of anything? And how can they refuse to allow someone to bring their own property across state lines? That is INTERSTATE commerce. Think federal court case.
But I suppose they could put in a $10,000 tax on out of state purchases.
Do these people ever leave their houses? All one has to do is drive over that big, rambling mountain range east of ABQ and then behold sprawling desert, followed by more desert (and the town of Moriarty).
To salvage their investment, GM later renamed the EV 1 the "Impact," probably the worse name ever for an automobile.California’s Original EV Mandate
By William J. Kelly
June 25, 2019In 1990, the California Air Resources Board adopted what became known as California’s zero emissions vehicle mandate under a federal Clean Air Act waiver. CARB’s mandate required that by 1998, two percent of the passenger cars sold by automakers be battery electric vehicles, with the level rising to 10 percent by 2003. The aim of the mandate was to clean up unhealthy smog.
General Motors responded by introducing the EV 1 in 1996, which could go about 60 miles on a charge. In turn, the state of California authorized utilities to invest in a network of public EV charging stations. State agencies began spending untold millions of dollars to subsidize chargers, including signage to publicize them to motorists.
Californi had a legitimate issue.
Not any longer. The emissions controls put in place have been effective.
All it is is CARB trying to keep itself relevant.
California will not register diesel trucks for commercial purposes with an engine that is not 2010 or newer.
They haven’t been for 2 years now. No one has stopped them.
So, maybe the Hobbs Technical Vocation Center could offer a certificate in electric car battery pack rebuilding. (I’ve long been a proponent of “Trade Schools’ (And apprenticeship programs).
CA has been doing that since the 80s. It used to be cars were labeled as CA-compliant or 50-state compliant for emissions. Those that did not meet CA's regulations could not be registered there.
And yes, even vehicles that meet the standard for when they were manufactured are being forced off CA roads. I have in-laws there who have to sell perfectly good diesel trucks because they don't meet current standards. Even though they meet the standards that were in place when they were originally sold. They have to be sold out of state.
While most of the state is wide-open desert with some forests, that range due east of Albuquerque does cause some pollution issues. I live NW of Albuquerque in Rio Rancho (Sandoval County). We don't have to emissions test here, but my buddy two miles south of me, in NW ABQ (Bernalillo County) does. Technically, I am supposed to test if I commute over x-number of days per year into ABQ, but there's no way to enforce that.
The mountains tend to trap the air in the Rio Grande valley. You can see the haze just about year round looking east toward the mountains. It's really not bad, but it is there. The wind blows so much here it tends to clear it out on a regular basis.
The worst pollution in the state now is the smoke from the U.S. Forest Service-caused Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon fire complex north of us.
If EV drivers were mandated to buy ONLY green-generated electricity for their EV’s, drivers would feel the actual cost of facilitating this fraud…it would be harder to implement mandates.
The brownout will stop this.
The electric cars are unaffordable to the average American and this is the plan, everyone else will be riding bicycles very few will have electric cars and they solved the climate change problem and killed the oil industry that stands in their way
There is a difference between a car that doesn’t meet a mechanical standard and a car whose purchase would result in the state falling short of a 7% electric goal. But obviously the courts take a “government uber alles” approach. I just don’t understand how it can be legal. But I guess I don’t see how much of our current government is constitutional!
About 10% of it.
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