Newsom eradicating sales of new gas powered cars by 2035

[Ceece]

CA has a habit of making regulations despite knowing they won't work well out the gate. When something is first mandated, from low flow toilets to high efficiency appliances, everything is going to suck because it takes time for manufacturing and development to come up with new ways to make things better. And if they can't find ways then regulations will sometimes slowly be rolled back a bit but man, the cost to consumers who have to constantly buy new products, and the frustration everyone has to live with in the meantime, really sucks. And when something does get better it's never as good as the original thing, but everyone is so frickin grateful for any improvement they just take it. This has always been how CA does things. And btw, most of it isn't going to "save the plant", it's just going to create a different business model that a lucky few will make bank on.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by NORTY FLATZ

You mean like bullets?

Oh, that would be contraband at that point....

All the CA plates at bass pro lol.

[NORTY FLATZ]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

All the CA plates at bass pro lol.

Yep, each store has an average customer pool of eight and a half million people...

[CA4Now]

To the editor: Broken equipment isn’t the only problem with public electric-vehicle chargers. Broken business models and broken software also contribute to slow uptake of these cars. (“Broken chargers, lax oversight: How California’s troubled EV charging stations threaten emission goals,” Jan. 24)

Most charger companies require signing up for their service, which can’t be done on the spot. Then you have to clutter your phone with their bug-filled proprietary smartphone app. Some companies want you to prepay for the electricity. PowerFlex, widely used by L.A. County, is a major offender on these fronts.

Imagine driving into a gas station and discovering that you can’t fill your tank until you register and download an app, and then you have to “load your account” with far more (nonrefundable) money than the amount of fuel you need. And after that, the pump doesn’t work. I don’t think most consumers would be happy.

The state should require all suppliers (including Tesla) to offer charging on a no-signup, pay-as-you-go basis, just like gas stations.

--Geoff Kuenning, Claremont

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...stem-is-a-mess

[vincenze]

Foothill Transit was the first agency to buy electric buses.

In a scathing report to its board, Foothill's director of maintenance and vehicle technology, Roland Cordero, outlined problem after problem with the electric buses. "For the past five years, the reliability and fit-and-finish quality of those buses have degraded over time," Ronaldo reported, particularly since 2019, when a minimum of one out of every three electric buses has been out of service at all times, and sometimes as many as two out of every three. A few buses have been out of service for hundreds of days at a time waiting for parts. Foothill has had to run gas buses on Line 291, which was supposed to be all-electric, to make up for it. And two of the first electric buses delivered 11 hopeful years ago "have only been used for operator training due to very poor build quality and reliability." And on January 9, 2020, the driver dashboard on Bus 2004 caught fire. Cordero charitably referred to this in the board report as a "thermal event."

And Cordero told the board that repairs are getting prohibitively expensive. As such, he recommended the board seek to retire the fleet early, after just seven or eight years.

[CA4Now]

This will certainly have an impact on EV sales.

For years, many owners of electric and hybrid vehicles in California have qualified for temporary “clean air vehicle” decals that let them freely cruise the carpool lane even when driving solo.

That freedom may be coming to an end, however.

If the federal government doesn’t extend the program allowing alternative-fuel vehicles to use the carpool lane, it will expire Sept. 30, 2025.

In 2005, legislation authorized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to allow solo drivers in low-emission and energy-efficient cars to use the carpool lane. The point was to promote the adoption of alternative-fuel vehicles and help meet environmental goals, said Ronald Ongtoaboc, public information officer for the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

Those goals aligned with the objectives of carpool lanes, which are to reduce fuel consumption and pollution caused by congested freeways, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

In the years that followed, states gained the power to choose which vehicle models to give carpool access; their decisions were driven by purchasing trends and technology advancements. But the highway funding bill enacted in 2015 extended that power just through Sept. 29, 2025.

“After that date, the public authority must discontinue allowing the use of such vehicle in HOV lanes unless such vehicle has the required number of occupants or Congress extends this provision,” Ongtoaboc said.

Electric and hybrid vehicles could lose California carpool access. What you need to know:
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...u-need-to-know