Unfortunate, but I doubt the future of the EV market is hinging in whether or not Connecticut leads the way lol
Fox News is one of the largest proponents for propping up the big oil companies.
The state shouldn’t have mandated that in the first place. There’s no need to mandate that which will happen on its own.
Except it was the Democratic governors proposal to SUPPORT EV’s that was blocked by Trumper/GOP and a few Manchinite “Democrats”.
Trump/GOP has always opposed lowering global warming emissions on religious and personal profit grounds.
Actual headline:
“GOP blocks reduction of greenhouse gas emissions again”
Law or no, the market will take the lead anyway.
I’d rather CT invest in improving its section of Metro North to allow higher speed trains between Boston and NYC. That and heat pump incentives will reduce CO2 plenty in CT.
Hmm, gas powered NEW cars in 2035. Does anybody think companies will be selling and people will be buying gasoline powered cars 10 years from now?
We have an EV but I don’t think they should be forced on anyone either some people are will get scared and push back. Let the market decide the EV transition is already going faster than they predicted with almost 10% of all cars in 2023 will be EV. A few years ago they were hoping to see 30% by 2030 and sounds like they could hit that by 2027.
People are just tired of the constant pricing games from big oil and like the convenience of never stopping at a gas station. People will eventually move to an EV without restrictions on ICEs.
It’s hard when the market isn’t free. I want to agree with you but the oil cartels dictate so much.
Yea, but at the same time the laws are just…performative?
If people don’t want to buy EV’s, no law requiring the sale of a certain percentage of them will actually stand – they’ll either push back the date, remove it, or cause massive economic harm in their own state as people go and spend five-figures in nearby states.
Like stop the performative shit, and make the state EV-friendly. But that’s harder and requires work and doesn’t generate big headlines, so it isn’t done.
We’re having a debate in our state with EV mandates – we have stretches of roads >250 miles without a single even slow charger on them. The state keeps funding single-plug stations, which are then crowded or go down. Our vendors in some cases are >2 years late on installation of the chargers, and the state is like “well, we still trust them” and don’t terminate the old contracts, and keep giving them new ones.
THAT is what’s holding up EV adoption. People, politicians, DOT, etc actually putting in the groundwork to make EVs viable and beneficial to huge swaths of their populations. Not silly mandate bills. If at 2030 they mandate 100% EV’s and in 2029 they’re only selling 25% EVs, do you really think this bill is going to stand? What in this bill forces dealers and others to push EVs to try and make the transition happen? Literally nothing. Performative.