Posted on 04/28/2023 3:34:01 PM PDT by lowbridge
California regulators on Friday voted to ban the sale of new diesel big rigs by 2036 and require all trucks to be zero-emissions by 2042, a decision that puts the state at the forefront of mitigating national tailpipe pollution.
The California Air Resources Board unanimously approved the Advanced Clean Fleets rule, the state's second zero-emissions trucks rule and first in the world to require new commercial trucks, including garbage trucks, delivery trucks and other medium and heavy-duty vehicles, to be electric.
Supporters of the rule say it will improve public health in marginalized communities that have endured polluted air while mitigating the effects of climate change. The mandate is estimated to deliver $26.5 billion in public health benefits in California in avoided health impacts and deaths due to diesel pollution.
Heavy-duty trucks represent nearly one third of the state's nitrogen oxide and more than one quarter of its fine particle pollution from diesel fuel,
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Some of the country's major truck manufacturers and their lobbying groups have strongly opposed the regulations, arguing that requirements are costly as electric models are more expensive than diesel trucks. Large trucks are more expensive to convert to electric models than smaller vehicles due to their size and weight.
The trucking industry has also said that the deadlines are unrealistic given the lack of EV charging infrastructure and available space at ports.
The mandate would require companies that operate 50 or more trucks to convert their fleets into electric or hydrogen models and achieve zero-emissions by 2042.
The earliest deadline is for drayage trucks, which carry cargo to and from major ports, which must be converted to electric models by 2035, while new sales starting in 2024 must be zero-emissions. Vehicles like garbage trucks and school buses must be zero-emissions by 2027.
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FL ports will supplant CA shithole EV ports.
They want train locomotives to not run on diesel fuel, too.
These people are insane.
Things will be getting so bad people will migrate out of the state on.foot if necessary...kind of like Mexico. 😕
The people of California will have left the state or starved to death by 2046
Or more likely the law will have been repealed by a more sensible government.
Economic ruin, misery, all kinds of suffering inflicted on everyone and it’s all based on a pile of BS.
It wasn’t enough putting particulate filters on trucks and catalytic converters to reduce NOx. Noooo….soon thereafter it is ban, ban, ban. It’s the one-party State way. Who cares about technical and economic feasibility? That’s for nerds.
California is “The Lemming State”
2036 and 2042? It really doesn’t matter, because California will probably be part of Greater China or Greater Mexico by then. New laws will be in place. And you can bet those new laws won’t be green.
(just kidding, maybe)
These carriers need to just quietly pull their freight from CA. Don't give reasons why, don't complain, just say you will no longer do business in California moving forward.
How long before people wake up to the misery barreling down the tracks at us?
Will it even be possible to declare the whole green project a failure and then get back to practical things that work? There will be no more ICE gasoline and diesel engineers and manufacturing experts available. It could take 50 or 75 years to undo the damage.
By 2036 it will be part of Mexico at the current rate - and then we’ll need two walls that will never be built!
Dude, we ARE awake.
If we were asleep at the switch, Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections, would it?
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“FL ports will supplant CA shithole EV ports.”
I agree California deserves it, but there is NO WAY that the Left will let that happen - they’ll simply use their federal control to keep it from happening.
The oil companies would have every right in the world to shut down operations in the hostile state of Commiefornia!
You’re possibly right, but between FL, NC, SC NJ, NY, it might happen.
“By 2036 it will be part of Mexico at the current rate”
As the pace things are going, I suspect that border traffic will reverse (flow from US to Mexico) within a couple of decades, and Mexico will wind up building the wall.
We need a term for “mass societal suicide”.
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