California Looks to Ban Diesel Trucks at Ports by 2035

WSJ ^ | 20 November 2022 | Paul Berger

[NautiNurse]

Truckers say the state’s lack of charging stations for big rigs is major obstacle to switching to electric

An ambitious California plan to require trucking fleets in the state to switch from diesel to electric power faces a potential backup at charging stations.

The California Air Resources Board is proposing phasing out older big rigs operating in the busy corridors shuttling shipping containers between ports, rail yards and warehouses and require that all new vehicles be powered by clean fuels starting in 2024. From 2025, the state would bar trucks powered by internal combustion engines that have more than 800,000 miles on them from operating at ports and rail yards.

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The state regulatory board is expected to vote on the rule next spring.

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“We are counting on the shipper community to pay significantly elevated prices to support the higher equipment costs,” Mr. Brown said.

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California has about 80,000 electric-vehicle chargers, according to state data, almost all of them for cars and light trucks. State officials say they don’t know how many heavy-duty electric-charging stations there are in California, but they estimate the state will need 157,000 chargers by 2030 to support electrification of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.

[NautiNurse]

How long does it take to charge up a big rig? How far can a loaded big rig run on a full charge?

Inflation is forever.

[ConservativeInPA]

That will turn out well for Californians.

Note to the idiots in the land of fruits and nuts: There are other ports in America. Additionally, everything that is made and grown in California can be made elsewhere or is really isn’t a necessity. The competent and productive are already leaving California in droves. You better start thinking about who and what remains in California when you have your utopia in 2035.

[Recompennation]

Calling all coolies, wheel barrow and rickshaw days are back.

[Clutch Martin]

May geology do that thing it does and slap some reality into that crowd.

[Tupelo]

“We are counting on the shipper community to pay significantly elevated prices to support the higher equipment costs,” Mr. Brown said.”

Translation: If you thought import duties and inflation were high now, just wait until we get the ‘Shipper Community’ bill for those “significantly elevated prices to support the higher equipment costs.”

[Chainmail]

It's what you get when you vote for Democrats: unreality. What happens when you ban oil? You starve to death. Nobody ever heard of electric tractors or combine harvesters on farms and all that additional electric power to charge batteries won't come from wind farms and solar.

Without cheap, available power, no food production and no food delivery and no food preservation (refrigeration).

But that's what they plan for us - extinction.

[NautiNurse]

Well done!

[Recompennation]

And this from a state that can’t keep enough juice on line to warm everyones pop tarts consistently.
This Brown guy also thinks that shippers will pay for these bureaucrat fiats. ?.
Put it up for a vote. Elect sane people and holding them responsible for what the government does. it is california the ones that brought us smog pumps.

[NautiNurse]

Does California have a deadline for fixing their forever water shortages?

[Chainmail]

I think that they’ve run out of neighboring states to rob of their water.

[mykroar]

Thankfully. California’s electric grid is rock solid. . .

[Erik Latranyi]

Electric is not efficient for “work” such as trucks.

These trucks will all have to be fuel-cell (hydrogen) to comply.

CNG is cheap and proven, but the emotional environmentalists will not allow it.

[MCF]

I don’t see how they can implement this without the Federal Government’s approval. It would be the same as if Missouri would ban diesel trucks from crossing the state via I-70 or I-44.

[Mark17]

Inflation is forever.

Starvation lasts even longer than that.

[Tell It Right]

“We are counting on the shipper community to pay significantly elevated prices to support the higher equipment costs,” Mr. Brown said.”

I'm so old I remember the Dims calling Trump an evil protectionist for adding import tariffs. LOL

[newfreep]

Thankfully we don’t have a President that’s a puppet of China...

“China Is Dominating Lithium-Ion Battery Production”
https://www.grepow.com/blog/china-is-dominating-lithium-ion-battery-production.html

[pas]

The big problem is this affects us all in higher prices.

[C19fan]

From 2025, the state would bar trucks powered by internal combustion engines

So steam power or Stirling engines are acceptable. Smells like an opportunity to make money from this loophole.

Given today's technology, how much Lithium batteries would an 18-wheeler need to use to handle the loads?

[cuban leaf]

I don’t care. First, I’ll be 81. Second,I don’t live in that country. By the time any such nonsense comes to my country I’ll probably be dead.

[linMcHlp]

bttt