Posted on 01/17/2025 6:28:57 PM PST by george76
California regulators withdrew a proposal to mandate the sale of zero-emissions trucks over the next 20 years on Tuesday evening.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) pulled back its request to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a waiver that would have allowed the state to require massive increases in sales of electric or zero-emissions truck models over the coming decades. As of 2023, only 0.3% of all registered heavy-duty vehicles in the U.S. were zero-emissions models, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation.
CARB’s Advanced Clean Fleets rule would have mandated California’s truck fleet to move to zero-emission models starting in 2024, ending with the fleet going 100% zero-emissions between 2035 and 2042, according to Commercial Carrier Journal. The proposed regulations would have also required 100% of all new heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emissions models by 2036 if implemented
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While we are disappointed that U.S. EPA was unable to act on all the requests in time, the withdrawal is an important step given the uncertainty presented by the incoming administration that previously attacked California’s programs to protect public health and the climate and has said will continue to oppose those programs,” CARB Chair Liane Randolph told Commercial Carrier Journal.
Notably, the EPA granted California its requested Clean Air Act waiver to force 100% of new light-duty auto sales in the state to be zero-emissions vehicles by 2035 in December 2024. Other states have opted-in to adopting those California electric vehicle rules, meaning that state regulators and the EPA are effectively pushing the entire country’s auto market toward electric vehicles in implementing the rule.
“The trucking industry and American consumers can breathe a collective sigh of relief today after CARB finally bowed to reality and shelved its job-killing Advanced Clean Fleets regulation,” American Trucking Associations President and CEO Chris Spear told Commercial Carrier Journal. “This unachievable mandate would have raised costs and caused disruption throughout our supply chain without delivering the promised environmental benefits.”
I guess someone must of wrote Newscum a big enough check finally
Just a reminder of yet another problem for EVs:
June 12, 2024 — “Thieves are increasingly targeting electric vehicle charging stations, intent on stealing the cables, which contain highly conductive copper wiring.”
California.....just a hot mess now. Wow.....
To get far you apparently need to recharge EV trucks.
That killer was tracked by his many trips to hopscotch along EV stations to get to his murder location.
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Yahoo, January 4, 2025.
“You might want law enforcement to have the data to crack down on criminals, but can anyone have access to it?” said Jodi Daniels, CEO of privacy consulting firm Red Clover Advisors. “Where is the line?”
Many of the latest cars not only know where you’ve been and where you are going, but also often have access to your contacts, your call logs, your texts and other sensitive information thanks to cell phone syncing.
The data collected by Musk’s electric car company after the Cybertruck packed with fireworks burst into flames in front of the Trump International Hotel Wednesday proved valuable to police in helping track the driver’s movements.”
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Not one word about the CURRENT illicit prohibition on ANY diesel truck over ten years old operating in CA-CA-Lafornia.
This kills owner-operators, ten years is just about when they can expect to pay off the purchase and finally make a decent profit.
CA is going to need immense amounts of supplies to rebuild So. Cal.
They will be paying premium prices to get them via the limited number of available “Legal” trucks.
Then I expect them to accuse the trucking companies of “Price gouging”!
Not one word about the CURRENT illicit prohibition on ANY diesel truck over ten years old operating in CA-CA-Lafornia.
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even out of state fire trucks that came to help fight the la fire.
just sayin.
Doesn’t sound like their idea of a green new deal is going to survive.lol
How’s your high-speed rain boondoggle going, you bunch of morons!
*rail
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!
Burn a few more really expensive battery power storage facilities and see where all the cock and bull go.
“How’s your high-speed rain boondoggle going, you bunch of morons!”
Working as designed. Wasting piles of money. Actually running trains? Not so well.
The idiots doing that to the cables, its not even that much money.
Yeah. And they can track you even when you’re not doing anything you think is illegal.
With gas vehicles they only can track you IF you use a credit card or electronic pymt. So you have the ability NOT to be tracked if you use cash.
What is ‘cash’?
Or drive an older car. A lot of sacrifices to stay private.
Yes. In the City of Detroit hundreds of street lights were dead due to the wiring and transformer boxes that had the metal wiring stolen from them.
After several years of complaints they had a big project with publicity, the politicians patting themselves on the backs on the news for being the council and Mayor that got the streetlights rewired.
Sad how people wreck things for scrap metal cash.
If Kamala had won, it would be the middle finger and full steam ahead.
The people setting a goal such as that know perfectly well it’s impossible. What they want is to hurry their desired technological progress along by inflicting pain. All that actually happens is the pain. When the pain reaches them, they back off.
MORONS!
Can we have our RVs back?
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