Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission unanimously approved a new Colorado Clean Car rule, which essentially follows California’s “Advanced Clean Cars 2” rule, but falls short of setting a 2035 target for 100% EV sales.
Last year, California finalized a rule that would lead to 100% EV sales for new vehicles by 2035. The rule targets increasing percentages of new EV sales between now and 2035, culminating in 100% ZEV and PHEV sales by that date.
At the time (and now), we noted that this timeline could have been sooner for California, given its status as the leading state in EV adoption in the US (and could probably stand to exclude PHEVs as well). But the California Air Resources Board reasoned that, by setting a more lenient rule, other states could more easily adopt the full rule, thus creating a bigger bloc of states to push the auto industry in the direction it ought to be moving.
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