CA Mandates all trucks must be electric beginning in 2024

[Eddo Rogue]

California mandate: Commercial trucks go electric starting in 2024, all-EV by 2045

New regulation adopted in the Golden State will require 100,000 battery electric and fuel-cell trucks by 2030 and 300,000 by 2035.

www.greencarreports.com

is this even possible?

 

[sgtsandman]

Only if the resident of California let them do it.

 

[sheep herder]

It just means that diesel powered trucks will be registered in other states. More businesses will be leaving the state too.

 

[fastpakr]

That mandate doesn't require all trucks to be electric in 2024. Just that all manufacturers make an electric truck available by then. There's another 21 years before they're required to -only- sell electrics. Plenty of time for technology to improve or the law to be modified.

 

[Dirtman]

Ford already makes an electric raptor. I cant imagine it'll be hard for other companies to do the same and offer at least one electric vehicle option.

 

[stmitch]

All of the heavy truck makers (Daimler, Volvo, Cummins, etc) have been working on electric trucks for several years now. The first handful that are ready for "primetime" are starting to trickle into customer hands now. Buses, box trucks, garbage trucks, short haul semi tractors, etc are already on their way or will be in the very near future.

It will be interesting to see if the CA regulation expands to other CARB states or not. I can see a bunch of switching yards just across state lines where long haul trucks drop trailers and electric trucks pick them up to handle the freight in/out of CA and any other states that follow.

 

[RonD]

Upside is lower demand of fossil fuels means lower price of fossil fuels, like we saw a few months back

So IMO its a good thing and I'm not even a "tree hugger"

I can't wait until "ALL OF YOU" have to go electric, then I will get MY gas at $.05/gallon, GO GREEN baby, go green

 

[Dirtman]

I've said this before, what is the purpose of an electric vehicle when the power required to charge said vehicle is coming from coal anyway? Unless your grid is powered by nuclear energy all you've done by using an electric vehicle is shift the emissions from one point to another. I think things like that should be factored into decisions before making laws about this crap. California wants all these electric vehicles but have they prepared the electric grid to handle the extra load or ensured its clean enough that it won't be producing just as much emissions as the trucks themselves did?

 

[Grumpaw]

There must be a way to determine the amount of methane being produced in your poop furnace. If possible to convert it to power a truck, you are home free.
Between you, the goats, and the chickens, I imagine there is quite a bit produced.

 

[97RangerXLT]

I've said this before, what is the purpose of an electric vehicle when the power required to charge said vehicle is coming from coal anyway? Unless your grid is powered by nuclear energy all you've done by using an electric vehicle is shift the emissions from one point to another. I think things like that should be factored into decisions before making laws about this crap. California wants all these electric vehicles but have they prepared the electric grid to handle the extra load or ensured its clean enough that it won't be producing just as much emissions as the trucks themselves did?

The City of Indianapolis has several electric mass transit buses, including the two part articulated buses (huge). they are almost whisper silent going down the road... as for polution, I agree with you. but, it will be easier for the state to jump on a single point of pollution than to go after thousands or hundreds of thousands or even millions of individual vehicles. once the majority of large trucks or even cars are converted to electric, then the sing point of pollution can be addressed.

As for infrastructure, that will be improved as more and more electric vehicles and demand for charging them goes up. The issue that I see is what are we doing to the environment by mining the toxic chemicals that are in the batteries? and what are we doing with those chemicals once the batteries reach the end of their service life? Right now, they are shipped over to third world countries and are poisoning those areas. so if you are a developing country, you are in a world of hurt polution wise just so the first world countries can feel good about themselves because they have eliminated fossil fuels...

AJ

 

[RonD]

I've said this before, what is the purpose of an electric vehicle when the power required to charge said vehicle is coming from coal anyway? Unless your grid is powered by nuclear energy all you've done by using an electric vehicle is shift the emissions from one point to another. I think things like that should be factored into decisions before making laws about this crap. California wants all these electric vehicles but have they prepared the electric grid to handle the extra load or ensured its clean enough that it won't be producing just as much emissions as the trucks themselves did?

You are messing up a perfectly good fantasy with facts, please stop that

Electricity comes out of the wall, so clean energy, just makes sense that an electric vehicle would be clean as well, "they" just need to add a wall inside somewhere, DUH

Sometimes reality is just plain inconveinent, so ignore it, works for me

 

[Grumpaw]

What would happen if, you have an electric vehicle, and you use a 12 volt powered battery charger, plugged into the cig. lighter with the clamps attached to the battery ?
Self charging ? No need to run out of power ? No need for outside source to charge battery ?
THIS is the sh-t that keeps me up at night !

 

[Dirtman]

What would happen if, you have an electric vehicle, and you use a 12 volt powered battery charger, plugged into the cig. lighter with the clamps attached to the battery ?
Self charging ? No need to run out of power ? No need for outside source to charge battery ?
THIS is the sh-t that keeps me up at night !

The hamster would loose its freaking mind...

 

[RonD]

Yup, if your well runs dry just use the hose to fill it back up, DUH

These silly people way OVERTHINK these things

 

[Grumpaw]

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