Pathway 4.

Energy Efficiency, Conservation, and Fuel Switching in Transportation → Light-Duty Vehicles

4.2.7 Zero Emission Vehicles

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress should adopt a national ZEV mandate, to help ease the fleet transition towards electrification. Congress should clarify that states have authority to adopt their own more ambitious ZEV standards and are not preempted by any federal goals.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress should authorize NHTSA as well as EPA to adopt credit multipliers for fuel efficiency standards to encourage ZEV alternatives such as electrification.”

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Washington SB 1287

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Requires that all publicly and privately owned passenger and light duty vehicles of model year 2030 or later be electric, and sets several planning processes in motion.

Washington’s SB 5811

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Joins Washington with a dozen other states adopting California's Zero Emissions Vehicle requirements.

Minnesota Clean Cars Program

Jurisdiction: State Agencies

Program approved in May 2021 would see the state adopt low- and zero-emissions vehicle rules similar to those adopted first in California.

Virginia’s Advanced Clean Cars Program

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Gives the State Air Pollution Control Board power to regulate emissions from low emissions vehicles (LEV) and zero emissions vehicles (ZEV).

General Motors 2035 ZEV Goal

Jurisdiction: Private Entities

GM aspires to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035.

Massachusetts 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Comprised four sector-specific analyses focused on buildings, transportation, non-energy emissions, and the carbon sequestration potential of Massachusetts’ natural and working lands, plotting the road to net-zero GHG emissions by 2050.

North Carolina’s Executive Order 80 (2018)

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Directed an increase in the number of registered ZEVs to at least 80,000 statewide by 2025, led by a planning effort through the Dept. of Transportation.

New York’s Proposed ZEV Mandate

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Provides that one hundred percent of in-state sales of new passenger cars and trucks shall be zero-emissions by two thousand thirty-five.

California Executive Order on Zero Emissions Vehicles

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035 and additional measures to eliminate harmful emissions from the transportation sector.

California’s ZEV Regulation and Other Participating States

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

California’s ZEV regulation requires automobile companies to produce a certain percentage of ZEVs for sale in California, while ten other states and DC have adopted the ZEV crediting requirements that California imposes on automakers.