I don’t understand the comments attacking Toyota when no auto manufacturer with the exception of Tesla can even get close to the goal. There are approximately 1.6 Million new cars sold in California every year so %35 percent of that is 560,00. Then the next year in 2027 the goal is 43%, and the year after that it’s 51% until by 2035, just 11 years from now, ALL new vehicles sold in California are required to be ZEV.
To give you some scope Tesla makes about 1.6 Million EVs a year globally and the “Big Three” made a piddling 200,000 or so COMBINED in 2023.
So the 2025 goal would require nearly half of Tesla’s entire global output to be sold exclusively in California and by 2027 it would require that PLUS the combined EV output of Ford, GM, and Chrysler. There literally wouldn’t be a single EV for sale anywhere else in the country.
We can scream and fling poo about the domestic auto makers dropping the ball but that doesn’t change the impossible nature of California’s regulations. I don’t see any way at all to meet the 2025 goal and nothing will have changed by 2026.
All this law is going to do is force buyers to out of state dealerships. That’s it.
The incumbent car manufacturers had plenty of time to adapt but they chose not to in the name of short term profits. Now they’ll move away from EVs with support from the federal government. All this will do is make the US auto industry even less competitive internationally. As a consequence US consumers will pay higher prices for inferior, technologically obsolete products. Congratulations.
I don’t understand the comments attacking Toyota when no auto manufacturer with the exception of Tesla can even get close to the goal. There are approximately 1.6 Million new cars sold in California every year so %35 percent of that is 560,00. Then the next year in 2027 the goal is 43%, and the year after that it’s 51% until by 2035, just 11 years from now, ALL new vehicles sold in California are required to be ZEV.
To give you some scope Tesla makes about 1.6 Million EVs a year globally and the “Big Three” made a piddling 200,000 or so COMBINED in 2023.
So the 2025 goal would require nearly half of Tesla’s entire global output to be sold exclusively in California and by 2027 it would require that PLUS the combined EV output of Ford, GM, and Chrysler. There literally wouldn’t be a single EV for sale anywhere else in the country.
We can scream and fling poo about the domestic auto makers dropping the ball but that doesn’t change the impossible nature of California’s regulations. I don’t see any way at all to meet the 2025 goal and nothing will have changed by 2026.
All this law is going to do is force buyers to out of state dealerships. That’s it.
The incumbent car manufacturers had plenty of time to adapt but they chose not to in the name of short term profits. Now they’ll move away from EVs with support from the federal government. All this will do is make the US auto industry even less competitive internationally. As a consequence US consumers will pay higher prices for inferior, technologically obsolete products. Congratulations.
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Norway’s 92% of cars sold in July -24 proves it is not only possible, but also realistic. It’s been done.