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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
You read it perfectly. It is a goal, not a law. Executive branch at state or federal level does not make laws. That is the job of the Legislative branch. FWIW, every immigrant who wants to become a US citizen has to learn that the Legislative Branch makes law, the Executive Branch approves (or vetoes) law, the Judiciary Branch interprets law.
Case in point…the original California ZEV Mandate stated that by 2003, 10% of cars sold in California had to be zero emissions. In Q1 2021, 18 years after the timing for the original “mandate” the number of zero emissions cars sold in California just eked past 10% for the very first time (thanks Tesla). So either the original mandate was NOT a law, or the law has been broken every year for the past 18 years. It was not a law. But it led to actual law that was a lot more realistic and achievable. History is repeating.
California and New York are not alone. Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii also have set 2035 as a target year to ban sales of new vehicles with ICE. That’s about 1/5 of the US by state count and closer to 1/3 of annual new vehicles sales. And more are coming.
This is a chart I'll be using at a panel discussion I'll be speaking at at Motor Bella.
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One minor detail left out that wasn't around in past 18 years as you show above.
And that is that manufacturers did not announce any plans in past years to permanently stop making vehicles that produce emissions.
Seems to me a different ball-game if the manufacturers time-line to stop production completely matches the so-called non-binding time line of prominent states to end emissions.
Not quite the same as the past 18 years of violating a non-binding target.