Threatened With Legal Action, Calif. Makes U-Turn On Electric Truck Mandate
California is dropping its e-truck mandate after legal pressure from 17 states.
by Kerry Jackson May 22, 2025, 7:15 AM
Pressured by legal action from seventeen states that would have been impacted, California has agreed to not just drop enforcement of its electric truck mandate, but to repeal it entirely. [emphasis, links added]
Following the governor’s 2020 executive order that banned the sales of new internal-combustion engine cars in 2035, the state Air Resources Board devised two years ago a “world-leading regulation to phase out the sales of medium and heavy-duty combustion trucks in California by 2036.”
But the rule would have reached far beyond California’s borders, says Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, who leads the 17-state coalition that challenged the Advanced Clean Fleets rule.
Another, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, said, “California’s attempt to dictate trucking standards for the entire country was a blatant overreach that would have devastated industries far beyond its borders.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/california-electric-truck-mandate-repeal/
