Electric vehicle mandate in California

ShinerBock wrote:

Reisender wrote:


Interesting stuff for sure.

As for your question, I’m not sure why you would think the supply trucks would have to be Electric. What’s wrong with diesel. Diesel and gas will continue to play a role in the future. Just not a great fuel for personal vehicles in many cases and of course use of these fuels will decline in the future. There are about 5000 vehicles per day hitting the roads with no gas tanks, exhaust systyms, spark plugs etc. The fuel make up of the world fleet is changing a little every day. No panaceas. No one size fits all. And technology marches on. Many EV drivers would not want to go back to the inconvenience of liquid fueled vehicles after getting used to fueling at home.

The world is a changin. :).

Because this thread is about a government entity forcing people to use a certain kind of vehicle so I am assuming that said government entity would use them too. It would be a little tyrannical of a government to use ICE vehicles when mandating that the people can't. A government entity mandating one type of vehicle is their way of saying that one size fits all.

I’m not up on the government mandate. Does it include commercial and military vehicles. I should probably know this stuff as I am a California resident at least 3 or 4 months of the year. In this province the final date of a private vehicle with an exhaust pipe is December 31 2039. But this doesn’t affect heavy transport or commercial vehicles. This year probably 15 percent of vehicle sales will be close to 15 percent so it should be an easy goal to achieve. Once there is a good line up of electric 1/2 tons available this number should increase significantly. Infrastructure is already good and getting better.

Change is good...sometime. :).