New York Considering Reduction in Clean Trucks Regulation
It is said that what goes for California eventually goes for the nation, and that seems to be the case with the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Advanced Clean Trucks rule, which required the ramping up of production and sales of zero-emission vehicles. Now that CARB has walked back its rule, other states are following suit, with New York state deciding whether or not to keep it.
Details
As it currently stands, the Advanced Clean Trucks rule would require manufacturers of commercial trucks (technically any vehicle weighing more than 8,500 pounds, but most of those are commercial vehicles) to have 7% of their sales be zero emission vehicles in 2025, increasing annually until 2045 where it would stand at 100%.
Part of the reasoning behind potentially walking this decision back is not only for political reasons, but for practical reasons as well. The New York State Thruway Authority says that it has no chargers built for medium-duty and heavy-duty commercial vehicles in its system of managing roads, meaning that those 7% of trucks driving them would be almost completely out of luck, unless they were willing to wait an inane amount of time to charge the truck with a station built for a normal car. The technology has also not made great progress on other forms of commercial trucks, according to Trucking Association of New York’s Zach Miller.
“We have members who are construction and there isn’t a manufacturer that could spec them in an EV,” said Miller. “Even if they said ‘you know what I want to try EV,'” there isn’t one on the market for applications like cement mixers or gravel trucks, which already run heavy and hilly routes that haven’t proven welcoming for big EV batteries. Not to say [the sale requirement regulations] will never work, but we very well might not have a realistic timeline in place for this, and the market is starting to bear that out.”
Conclusion
As it stands right now, 7% of these vehicles sold within New York state’s borders must be zero emission. But with the regulation on the cusp of being turned around, combined with a lack of proper charging infrastructure for both electric and hydrogen vehicles, it is hard to say with confidence that it will be on the books for much longer.
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