California Air Resources Board Mandates— We Suffer

by Tom Moore on Sep 13, 2023 10:25:00 AM

The mandate:

Port drayage contractors can't register Diesel trucks after this year
By 2035, all drayage + package delay + box trucks need to be zero emissions

My guess is impossible to implement with current technology:

Today California has 272 electric trucks registered. By 2035 they need 510,000 zero-emissions trucks (Zero emissions include hydrogen — think Nikola Motor)
Charging infrastructure = lacking (Need to install 450 chargers per week to meet the need)
Grid infrastructure is inadequate — some electric trucks are being charged by diesel generators.
Electric trucks can't legally haul heavy containers
Electric trucks are too expensive ($400K) for owner-operators (And more expensive for the shipper to hire)

The lack of trucking imperils 40% of US imports and 30% of exports.

Lunacy? Can they at least give credit to bio-diesel?

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