Another blue state unleashes electric vehicle mandate: 'Walking the walk'

Fox News ^ | 10/17/2023 | Thomas Catenacci

[Road Warrior ‘04]

The deserts will be cluttered with charging stations. (It isn’t like it’s 15 minutes between towns.)

[CedarDave]

Tax credits and all EV’s for the state government fleet are not the worst of it:

Model Year 2027 vehicles sold in 2026 must be 43% zero-emissions, a percentage that progressively increases until 2031 when 82% of Model Year 2032 cars sold in the state must be zero-emissions.

Out of state dealers will clean up until buyers find they are prohibited from registering them in NM.

[steve86]

“But they are light”

????

Tesla Plaid Model S: 4,766 lbs.
GMC Hummer EV: 9,061 lbs.
Rivian R1T: 7,000 lbs.

[SaxxonWoods]

Seems like he should start by ordering enough charger stations be built to charge every car in NM.

[CedarDave]

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[Allegra]

That woman is such an idiot.

[equaviator]

It’s naked aggression to do that but somehow, “microaggressions” are less tolerable!

[wild74]

Because she will be long gone and the mess will be on someone else

[MeanWestTexan]

I generally try not to find anything in Hobbs.

I love eastern NM and the people, but that is a scary town.

[Boomer]

Grisham makes a standard cow patty fly look smart by comparison.

Someone has to work to maintain that level of stupidity and ignorance.

I wonder when she had that frontal lobotomy?

[AZJeep]

Yes,
EV’s are the heaviest vehicles on the road.
Remember, they have to carry everywhere these very heavy batteries.
The automakers must make all the rest very light so EV’s can at least move with those heavy batteries!
Since EV’s are so heavy, they actually use (damage) the roads a lot more then ICV’s. Yet, they pay no road taxes!

[1Old Pro]

Why 2035?? They pull these dates out of their butts.

Beyond stupid, didn't they tell us the end of the world was coming in 7 years?

[lurk]

This lady loves her power.

[GailA]

btt

[RightOnTheBorder]

I can’t think of a worse state for EV’s. Dirt poor population, vast distances to cover, many single points of failure on power distribution outside of ABQ and Santa Fe.

This couldn’t happen to a better set of sheep. NM re-elected that scolding Oompa Loompa by a 60/40 ratio.

[TBP]

So the police will be in electric police cars.

In other news, a man had to spend $20,000 recently to replace the battery in his EV after a rainstorm.

[ChildOfThe60s]

She is a communist

[newfreep]

That woman is such an idiot.

It's not incompetence.
It's intentional.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

When I lived there in the 1950s and early 1960s New Mexico had great schools! The Ozark schools dad later got us into were the pits.

Now those Ozark schools are great and the New Mexico schools worst? What happened to New Mexico!

[joshua c]

tax credits level the playing field?

thats rich

more like govt putting their thumb on the scale