The Biden administration gives California the green light to impose strict zero-emissions requirements on heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state.
model, a Class 4 work truck with variable cargo space. Fully loaded with drawers and cabinets that fold out and a ladder rack for tools and equipment, the $215,000 EV is targeted at electric companies and municipal fleets for users such as water and parks and recreation departments.
Reaching the 100% target “is doable, especially for Workhorse,” Chambers said. “We have the manufacturing facility up and running [in Indiana]. We have vehicles available today, on the ground and ready to go.” Jason Chambers, regional sales manager for Workhorse, a company that manufactures electric-only commercial vehicles, inspects the drawers of the Workhorse W4 CC, a Class 4 work truck with variable cargo space.The trucking industry’s biggest trade group blasted the EPA decision.
“By granting California’s waiver for its so-called ‘advanced clean trucks’ rule, the EPA is handing over the keys as a national regulator,”. “This isn’t the United States of California, and in order to mollify a never satisfied fringe environmental lobby by allowing the state to proceed with these technologically infeasible rules on unworkable and unrealistic timelines, the EPA is sowing the ground for a future supply chain crisis.
Although nearly 19% of cars sold in California last year were zero-emission vehicles, fewer than 2% of all heavy-duty trucks were electric, according to the“With all of these added costs into the transportation and distribution sector, whether it’s a small retail shop or a Walmart or Target, it’s going to cost more to ship goods in California,” said
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