In perhaps the most consequential session of the year, California air regulators have adopted two landmark rules setting aggressive zero-emission requirements for fleets of heavier vehicles and locomotives.
The state will need to make good on a number of other promises to achieve its climate goals. Here’s how California is faring toward those goals., visiting ports and rail yards in California. By the end of this year, all legacy gas and diesel-powered vehicles that intend to operate in ports and rail yards must register by the end of the year, if they want to operate by the end of their useful life, 18 years, 800,000 miles or at least 13 years if over 800,000 miles.
“I’m in a truck all day I’m at the ports,” he said. “I know what it’s like to inhale diesel all day long. There’s a lot of us out here, owner-operators trying to live the American dream and own your own little business.” The fleets rule also establishes rules for all publicly owned fleets and so-called high-priority fleets, owned by entities with 50 or more trucks or revenue over $50 million.
of which will be electric vehicles, a startling reversal from an earlier proposal to mostly order gas-powered vehicles achieving a dismal 8.2 miles per gallon.
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