State adopts rule to require more electric cars (NM adopts California emission rules)

The Santa Fe New Mexican ^ | May 6, 2022 | Scott Wyland

[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.

[CedarDave]

So unanswered is what happens in January 2025 if those of us living near the Texas border buy a vehicle in Lubbock or Midland/Odessa or El Paso? Will we be allowed to register the vehicle in New Mexico?

With all the new rules and regulations affecting fossil fuel energy now including vehicle purchase, we have no choice but to throw that enviro-Nazi b***h governor in Santa Fe out of office in November.

[CedarDave]

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[ealgeone]

gubmint doing what it does best....screwing things up that should be decided by the market.

[BobL]

“So unanswered is what happens in January 2025 if those of us living near the Texas border buy a vehicle in Lubbock or Midland/Odessa or El Paso? Will we be allowed to register the vehicle in New Mexico?”

If you’re a resident of Texas and buy the car in Texas and drive it there for a year, then you can move back to NM, otherwise you’re out of luck.

Well, that’s how California has always dealt with out of state cars being brought in.

[Mr Rogers]

Since they can’t make people buy electric, all they can do is prevent people from getting access to gas powered new cars - IN NEW MEXICO! Sounds like a good deal for dealerships in Texas, Colorado, Arizona.

And in Arizona, we’re between the two idiot states! I suspect Arizona will see a lot of out of state car buyers!

[CedarDave]

I've answered my own question, it will become illegal:

20.2.91.101 REQUIREMENTS TO MEET CALIFORNIA STANDARDS. A. A manufacturer, dealer, rental car agency or other person shall not deliver for sale, offer for sale, sell, import, deliver, purchase, rent, lease, acquire, receive, or register new passenger cars, light-duty trucks, medium-duty passenger vehicles, medium-duty motor vehicles or motor vehicle engines unless such motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine is certified to the California vehicle emission standards, as incorporated by reference pursuant to this part.

B. Each manufacturer shall comply with the fleet average motor vehicle emission standards, zero- emission motor vehicle requirements, warranty, labeling, recall campaign, reporting, and other applicable requirements contained in this part.

C. Each manufacturer, dealer, rental car agency and person shall comply with the department’s inspection and information requests issued pursuant to 20.2.91.114 NMAC (Inspections and Information Requests).

D. Each person registering a motor vehicle in New Mexico shall comply with the registration requirements in this part.

E. The requirements in this part shall not be applicable if an exemption, as provided in 20.2.91.103 NMAC (Exemptions), applies. [20.2.91.101 NMAC - N, 8/1/2022]

Draft EIB regulations

[Paladin2]

Tejas allows their largest State Park that much autonomy?

[Mr Rogers]

I’m not sure a state can refuse to register a car bought out of state. They can make you pay taxes on it, but refuse to let you drive it? Sounds like something CONGRESS would need to do - Interstate commerce. But I’m no lawyer and I wouldn’t be surprised at anything the two stupid and evil states do to the east and west of Arizona.

Pity because I remember when New Mexico was a great state!

[CedarDave]

They incorporated by reference and adopted all 54 sections of the California Code of Regulations, Title 13!!

[Mr Rogers]

That applies to emission standards. Not to a 7% electric sales requirement.

[CedarDave]

About half the cars driven here now in Oil Patch City are from Texas anyway. I can see our company opening a small office across the state line and registering all our company vehicles in Texas.

[CedarDave]

The rule applies to both - requires a 7% electric vehicle sales requirement and implements California emissions requirements for gasoline vehicles beginning with the 2026 model year.

[Big Brother Go to Hell]

I’m not from New Mexico and I’m not very familiar with that state, but I doubt this will fly. California has legitimate (non climate scam) air pollution issues due to geography and a large population. None of that applies to New Mexico, so there’s no excuse to make its People ditch gas cars for electrics, bicycles, trains, or “hoofing it.”

[Bonemaker]

Vote yourselves into oblivion you morons.

[sauropod]

NM can’t afford Californistan-style socialism.

[fishtank]

Only a Biden would think LGM has intelligence.

[upchuck]

Dump the paywall: https://archive.ph/k9PUg

[CedarDave]

NM can’t afford Californistan-style socialism.

No it can't, but it's trying hard to adopt third-world classism.

[Jacquerie]

Government didn’t compel Henry Ford to build an affordable ICE auto.

[CedarDave]

I’m not from New Mexico and I’m not very familiar with that state, but I doubt this will fly. California has legitimate (non climate scam) air pollution issues due to geography and a large population. None of that applies to New Mexico, so there’s no excuse to make its People ditch gas cars for electrics, bicycles, trains, or “hoofing it.”

The majority of those that live in Santa Fe and many in ABQ have no idea what it's like to live in the rest of the state. ABQ has lots of federal government and state jobs with strip malls barely hanging on. The real action (and that they are trying to kill) is in SE NM where the oil and gas industry is flourishing and would do so more if the feds would lift its heavy hand on leasing on federal lands.

Went to a lecture last night in our local high school auditorium to see Mike Rowe who earlier yesterday dedicated a $46.5 million dollar facility* to bring back vocational "shop" classes to students. The event started with the Pledge of Allegiance followed by a prayer. It felt very much like years past and we wouldn't see the presentation beginning that way in ABQ or Santa Fe.

*CTECH