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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Idiots on parade.
Glad I left California, I went to university there. Beautiful, but it is now deadly. They are committing suicide.
The mandates are ridiculous. It took decades to transition from the horse and buggy to automobiles. And there is zero or near zero productivity improvement - it may actually reduce productivity. A diesel truck and an electric truck both move loads from point A to point B. The diesel you can fill up in existing infrastructure. The electric, you need to build out new infrastructure. You need manufacturers to build the trucks. You need charging stations, and power plants to generate the electricity, and a hell of a lot more wires.
I am ambivalent on the question - if people want electric, go for it. But the markets have to make it happen. Mandating it like some genie is going to magically generate tons of new electricity and build the charging network is just foolishness.
Those and the ones at Savannah.
“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...”
So what?
Yes.
Playing make believe is easier then handling the real problems in front of you.
Clown state.
You’d think a law requiring trucks to be electric would include a performance requirement on the required electric trucks.
But I’m wasting your and my time. That ban will never occur.
The Ports of Savanah - Charleston - Houston and Jacksonville are celebrating ! Was at a trade conference last week - California Ports are losing a lot of business to the East Coast Ports
You are assuming that the leadership in California has even a small measure of common sense. They don't. They will gladly starve their population in order to go down in history as doing their part to save a planet that is not really in such peril.
Maybe the port in Mexico that has direct access by a US controlled railroad.
On the bright side, hang onto those buggy whip factory stocks.
You mean back to Mexico.
Bowing to extreme pressure from muslim groups, California bans anything made since 700 AD.
And in other news there is still no word on how California plans to generate the needed electrical capacity to satisfy this draconian switch from petroleum to electric sources.
So will the batteries required to supply the energy needed to move the truck be so heavy will the semi only be able haul a hundred pounds of freight?
New business opportunity: A diesel truck sales outlet at the state lines of Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. DA1776 Truck Sales!
No trucks, no trains, NO FOOD, bye bye
That’s a long haul from China - but might be a benefit to Latin American exporters.
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