California bans new ICE truck sales by 2036, one year after car ban
in the state as of 2036. Then every kind of truck — from Amazon package delivery vans to postal service vehicles to medium-duty trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating above 8,500 pounds to over-the-road big rigs — will need to be zero-emissions, withThe advanced deadline comes one year after the state's equivalent mandate for light-duty vehicles, which takes effect in 2035.
At most, fleet companies will have six years to rid their fleets of vehicles that emit anything other than pure H2O, 2042 established as the year all trucks in the state must be zero-emissions. Thattoday, just 7% of the total number of vehicles in California but collectively the largest contributors to vehicle air pollution in the state.
The staggered ICE truck drawdown over the next two decades begins next year. That's when new drayage trucks, the carriers that shuttle goods between ports and warehouses, must be ZEV. These trucks also get the longest conversion window, not having to convert to either battery-electric oruntil 2035. These trucks are especially important, as hordes of them toil in the most polluted and heavily residential regions of California.
Public agencies have the shortest window, required to purchase 50% ZEVs by next year and have their entire fleets converted by 2027. Garbage trucks and city buses have until 2040 for full conversion, as do utility fleets.
CARB believes the technology is here, and now that the state's established a horizon,"private infrastructure providers" can organize investments and make plans. On the tech side, for instance, note
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