Back in September, the state of California announced its plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by the year 2035, joining a dozen-plus countries that had already made similar pacts. Recently, more countries have made similar pledges, including Japan. Now, Massachusetts is the second U.S. state to announce that it too will ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by the year 2035.
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced the plan as part of the state’s new decarbonization road map, which aims to reduce emissions emitted from passenger cars and reach net-zero fossil fuel emissions by 2050. The report states that currently, 27 percent of emissions in the state come from passenger vehicles.
In order to make widespread EV adoption possible, Massachusetts plans to expand its public charging infrastructure in the coming years. Currently, California and Massachusetts are the only two U.S. states requiring that all new vehicles sold by 2035 be electric, though New Jersey has set a goal of eliminating gas-powered car sales by 2035 as well.
Regardless, these mandates merely ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles and don’t affect those that are already on the road or sold prior to 2035. Thus, it will be quite some time before ICE-powered vehicles disappear completely from the roadways, if ever.
These mandates undoubtedly place a great deal of pressure on automakers, including Ford. However, in addition to the recently-launched 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E, The Blue Oval has a variety of electric vehicles in the works, including the 2023 Ford F-150 EV, which is due to arrive in mid-2022.
Additionally, Ford’s recently reached labor agreement with Canadian union Unifor includes a $1.95 million investment in the Ford Oakville Assembly Plant to retool it for the future production of five electric vehicles. That process will begin in 2024, with the first EV expected to roll off the assembly line in 2025.
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More of a concern in Middle and Rural America where the charging network is currently inadequate for such thoughts. The UP of Michigan has zero DCFC chargers and during real winter conditions the range of battery electric vehicles will drop almost 40% making road tripping impossible.
As suggested above, banning ICE vehicle sales by a certain date I don’t think is going to have the effect that most think it will. If it would, you’d see manufacturers exhibiting various kinds of protests. Actually, the industry has been doing the exact opposite. They agreed to uphold the emissions laws passed by the prior administration in lieu of the the adjusted laws passed by the current administration. There are reasons for this.
With work situations changing possibly for good, folks are driving less, and putting fewer miles on their ICE vehicles potentially prolonging their lives, so the need for replacement, unless it’s a lease, will extend the lives of those ICE’s already in driveways and garages. And with brands funneling many of their vehicle models out through fleet sales and fleet turnover, gradually tailing in more EV’s as part of these large fleets, should be relativity controllable.
The tangent time lines for ICE replacement and EV adoption will be very long. Those looking for any type of “hard stop” with either technology, will have look very long and hard. The changeover will be greatly unnoticed…
Again more choice and freedom being taken away by the climate change buffoons. China, Russia, Mexico and India put more crap in the atmosphere than anyone, but it’s our problem I guess even though we have the highest clean air standards of any country in the world.
Just stupid stupid stupid !!! They are upgrading right now a lot of rest areas in CA with EV charging stations. And what do you see ??? Propane tanks and generators !!!! beside the charging station for EV cars ! How stupid is that ??? They should install solar panels and battery packs to charge EV’s and not fossile powered generators ! Beside that long lines on the EV charging stations. A fast charge for an EV’s takes about 1.5 to 2 hours. Vehicles are lines up to get there charge…. running out of power while waiting because they have to run the heater in the EV’s not to freeze…. Welcome to the land of the stupid Politicians !!!
Most of these states who are banning the sales of ICE vehicles are almost or almost have a fully available charging network today or probably in the next few years. The auto industry also has about 14-15 years so if they fail to reach that they should have a serious management concerns. I doubt that states in the Midwest or states with poor population to size ratio will do this if they’re not capable but if they might you can always buy ICE vehicles in other states since only sales are band in only that state. I hope that by 2035 they better have a lot faster charging though cause or else they’re going to have serious backups.
Hmm. I wonder what the farming, ranching, and other entities that require heavy hauling and pulling capability are going to do! I also wonder how the bunch of dumbasses that decided this think
they’re going to get electric vehicles, groceries, furniture, and other consumer goods that require horsepower delivered without the use of ICEs.
Somebody better get busy designing and building electric motors that put out hundreds of horsepower, as well as the capability to charge them enough to run thousands of miles. Oh! I see! They will be charged by ICE powered generators or even nuclear reactors.
The states that are putting out these mandates and think they are saving the world 🌎 are already so messed up. Yeah, just look at California and Massachusetts. What a joke!
Pi** on California, Massachusetts and electric vehicles. Unless it’s on rails, I’m not having anything to do with ’em.
I wish so-called scientists would stop referring to ICE vehicles as burning ‘fossil fuels’. Petroleum is the lifeblood of this nation and it didn’t come from the emaciated remains of dinosaurs and sea creatures. Truth be told, Mother Earth 🌎 is still brewing it. Sheesh people git-a-clue!
Yup ………. This will decimate the dealer network in MA. I will buy one when it is capable of going the distance from Denver, CO to Dallas, TX without recharge. I do this at least 4 times a year to visit my granddaughter. 🙂 Ditto the other miscreants in Berkeley (gag), CA ……… lol
How about we just ban stupid people?
They better start building nuclear power stations. Of course the people pushing this global warming scam don’t like nuclear either. They would rather return us to the dark ages so long as they have their ac. So stupid. The pollution and strip mining and poisonous chemicals, needed to make these electric cars, don’t matter, just forcing people to do what the elites say is best no matter how stupid, is what they’re after. Everyone knows the 3rd world countries won’t be going electric so the people that will be punished, like always, will be Americans and Europeans.
In a city like New Bedford Massachusetts where you have city blocks full 3 floor apartment houses how do you expect people to charge their cars. Some of these homes only have 60 amps per floor and how many amps does it take to run a charger. It sounds like they are trying to push poor people into mass transit busses and ride sharing services.
Not to mention there are still towns in western Mass which don’t even have broadband internet yet, and yet they’ll somehow now be expected to upgrade their electrical infrastructure to accommodate the increased load that’ll be required to charge electric vehicles at night. On top of that, many of these towns lost power for several days as a result of an ice storm a few years back. I guess if that happens again the response will be “fxck you – you should’ve moved east”. Oh, I foresee a lot of people moving, but not east…
This is just the latest example of tyranny wrought by the wealthy utopian tyrants who live inside the I-495 corridor, God-dxmn everyone else.
Seriously?!? I road trip about 1000-1200 miles per day sometimes. How the f*** am I supposed to do that in a cost conscious electric car that gets tops 250 miles range and takes an hour to recharge every time? So I should just add an extra 4 hours to my day because I’ve been mandated by the government to use a technology that is not yet ready for prime time, is hugely inconvenient, has planned obsolescence baked in (nothing wrong with my ICE vehicle, folks) to “save the planet”… It’s time we rethink who we vote for. Nothing wrong with EVs, it’s that the technology is not ready for what we will demand of it, and draconian bans on ICEs are just pissing people off!
So, I buy a new car in South Carolina and bring to massateoshits, how does that work?