Rules are for NEW cars. I drive a 2001 and 2005. Newest I would even consider is 2008 or so. I’ve always driven something 20 years old.
I also own a 1950 and 1953 trucks that can be set on S-10 frames and drive trains. Antiques are usually exempt because the rich own and drive them.
If all else fails; https://www.diyelectriccar.com/
I will not have all that new OEM spy tech in my vehicle.
And he Dept. of energy gal has stocks in what busted.
How can they make laws out of thin air like that and get away with it and all we can do as a people is send in a comment they won’t read?
Yes, this is to drive people onto the little used (in California) public transportation system - which is dirty, unreliable and filled with homeless, some violent.
The pols in the statehouse are trying to get everyone to switch over to electricity - which is already in short supply - and which they well know. I know of know plans to upgrade of increase the amount of electricity available.
We have rolling blackouts in the state or outright shut downs if the wind is blowing and the government says it’s a fire hazard (because the entire system is old hasn’t been upgraded). Gas stoves are being vilified as is anything powered with natural gas.
Where is the source of all this new electricity going to come from? - and how is it going to be generated? Green Energy? Don’t think so. It’s not there, the government knows it and wants people off the roads and into mass transit (latest push is to require payment for miles driven on California’s freeways AND to make them ALL pay roads with a sliding scale as to time of day, none of it free).
The people who needed EVs to SEND A MESSAGE already have theirs.
The next batch of people, who are just now entering the market for EVs are those who don’t need to hold their noses up to others, but also have money and like the idea of having an extra car that doesn’t rely on gasoline, particularly if they’re otherwise self-sufficient with solar. They will be the EV owners who DO NOT post about their vehicles here.
The last batch are the people who can only afford gasoline cars - they might as well pack their bags to move to those 15 Minute Cities they plan for the masses (and also learn to eat bugs).
Reparations are my current worse trigger but being forced to lose gas cars is second.
How come nothing these tyrants force on America “disproportionately effect BIPOC, women, and children?”
They want to demolish the middle class and build the “New Man” upon the rubble.
Plain and simple.