By Guy Page
The responsibility to comply with Vermont’s copycat version of California’s gradual ‘ban’ on the sale of gas-powered cars and trucks is on vehicle manufacturers – not dealers or customers.
Also, people who want to drive gas or diesel-powered cars and pickup trucks may purchase them out of state and register them in Vermont, and still be in compliance.
In 2006, the State of Vermont agreed to follow all of California’s emissions regulations (aka CARB). A little over a year ago, California announced it would – in effect – ban gas-burning cars and trucks by 2035.
But for people determined to buy a fossil-fuel powered vehicle, the current regulations have a loophole big enough to drive a gas-guzzling truck through. And it’s not good news for Vermont car dealers.
The Vermont Low and Zero Emission Vehicle Regulation now in effect requires that by 2026 35% of all new cars and light-duty vehicles delivered to Vermont must be battery electric or plug in electric/gas hybrids, Matt Cota, a spokesman for Vermont automobile dealers told VDC today. The CARB doesn’t apply to used car sales.
35% will be easy for sunny, mostly-paved road California, where EV ownership is already in the low 30% range. But Vermont hybrid-EV ownership is just over 10%. Increasing that figure by 20% – one in five new car buyers – will be a big lift by 2026.
By 2035, 100% of all new cars sold in Vermont must have zero emissions. There is no requirement that dealers sell a certain percentage of ZEVs or that customers buy an electric vehicle. The composition of drive trains on dealer lots in Vermont and other CARB states will certainly reflect this regulatory requirement on the manufacturer.
However…..
Nothing in the current CARB rules prevent a Vermonter from buying a car in New Hampshire, NY, Massachusetts or any other state, and registering it in Vermont. Big trucks bought out of state can’t be registered in Vermont. But – at present, anyway – cars bought in say, Berlin NH may be registered and driven here.
Medium and heavy-duty trucks have a similar mandate but with a longer timeline. According to the Vermont Advanced Clean Truck regulation, half of all new Class 4-8 trucks sold in Vermont must have zero emissions by the end of the decade. See what trucks have to be zero emission when here.
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Gas car ban now ? Wow we real do have some serious ignorance in this state. They have no clue what little impact this will have on anything other than the dealerships in Vt. Ignorance runs rampant in Montpelier lately
I am sure VT leads NH in EV acceptance.Just as it leads it in efficiency,solar,and in having a completely fossil fuel free electrical grid.And VT leads NH in having fewer super users of gasoline.Why would that be?Geography.Much harder to commute to the economic powerhouse of New England from VT.It is now 2024.In 2 years either Tesla or GM or BYD will make an EV that will cost by sticker price new less than a Toyota Corolla.Game over.
The problem will be finding a gas station in a market that regulates them out of business them more and more. Instead, the EV and “renewables” fatcats want people to keep shelling out money, pumping their industrial waste into the environment that they claim to care about. The safest, most sound way of helping both one’s wallet and environs both is to conserve resources, not consume our way into new problems, but that doesn’t make money for big business, so no-one in legislature seems to acknowledge the obvious solution.
If THIS is what counts for “Progress” I would rather live in the past.
Yeah, sure….VT residents may still be “compliant” by buying a car out-of-state and registering it in VT, but you can bet your literal bottom dollar that they will be taxing you punitively in order to so! Count On It.
Where is the automotive industry on this bringing suits that demonstrate unconstitutionality???
Or are they like the same guy who “represents” the UAW and are too busy licking blankety-blanks to ever consider challenging these Communist dictators?????????
The Vermont people need to vote new people into office and overturn this. Making one ev car battery creates more pollution than a gas car running ten years. Where are their heads at. Rural Vermonters can not afford this
Well then the “rural voters” who are so habituated into voting for demoprogs need to change their voting habits.
The irony is these progressive “leaders” do not consider the amount of carbon emissions needed to produce these ZEVs, the carbon emissions needed to produce the electricity to power these ZEVs, nor the environmental waste do dispose of ZEVs batteries. These progressive “leaders” can’t see outside their little boxes.
There’s not a chance in Hell that California’s millions upon millions of cars will be successfully forced to go electric. The whole scam will fall apart by then, because it’s actually just impossible. But it will be interesting to see them try, and to watch the virtue signaling idiots in Vermont State Congress come to terms with it. Hopefully by then the electorate will have come to their senses. (Just kidding. They won’t. 😂 )
This will dramatically accelerate the transition of the Eastern edge of the state to bedroom communities for New Hampshire. We already do a lot of shopping over there and it looks like we will soon be buying our cars and gas over there also.
The Democratic leadership will figure out some way to add a “penalty” tax for ICE autos coming into VT for registration from other states. That will be right after they impose a huge annual fee, tax, or other BS penalty cost on gasoline retailers in an attempt to force compliance (to EVs) by the citizenry!
my wife just paid the increase in the registration of our car for the next two years///
Have to re register my car in Georgia next month. $21- $20 if I drive 15 miles to do it in person
Ok, fine. Auto manufacturers can build and deliver ANY percentage of EVs to Vermont that either the state or Feds enact into law. The key word is “deliver”. You know how many “delivered”, unsellable EVs are sitting in dealer lots right now around the country? And how much it’s costing those dealers to hold onto those vehicles until they sell? It’s a huge hit for dealers, which is why they’re begging the manufacturers to stop sending them more EVs. Last time I checked, the average time from when an EV was “delivered” until the time it finally “sold” was approaching four months! I’ve even heard stories (unverified as of yet) that many overpriced, unsold EVs are being junked. How would THAT be for the cat chasing its tail?
Folks, it’s not going to be we deplorables who put an end to this EV nonsense. We don’t have power and the gubmint knows it. But the dealers do… and that makes all the difference in the world.
Hey, you want to buy an EV? Great! You should have that option. The more options the better for consumers. But let the market dictate what succeeds and what fails. I’m all for it. What I’m NOT for is what this EV movement is really all about, and that’s restricting our right (and ability) to travel freely. It’s like herding cattle – Way easier to control when they’re confined to one square mile than when they’re free to roam the entire 50000 acre ranch.
Aloha to All – Blessings Michele 4.3.24 . May I make a suggestion. In addition to putting these [awesome] comments here, folks also need to pound the State Legs with emails. Not just your representative, to ALL OF THEM AT ONCE. This way they can’t feign ‘ignorance’. I find this to be the most effective way to get through those Patriarchal Monarch Royal rulership mindsets that occupy those vermont capital seats. I would also suggest to any ‘teachers’ ‘parents’ to start having ‘children’ do the same things. In the case of the children, it will help to deprogram them and cause a ‘grassroots’ movement to wake up Humanity. In the interim of wiping the whole state capital clean and truly starting over, the current yaks occupying those seats are following another set of edicts according to the Act of 1871 and any further edict that was installed thereafter. The fact that this whole region is known as ‘new england’ should be a red flag. The State Leg structure is only in place to push the negative-unrighteous agendas and the more folks that don’t push back, the more the minions, foot soldiers and gatekeeper’s aka State Legs, install those agendas that ‘aren’t quite right’ ‘not making any sense’ to the average coherent logical rational mind/brain/consciousness. We can no longer sit on our laurels and allow ‘authority’ to guide us. They are guiding us directly into the ‘subterrains of the hell crater’. This article Guy put forth, is exactly a prime example of how ‘insane’ Humanity has become. We can’t keep exploiting nature and putting regs/policies/bills/operations forth in the name of the ‘evil’ which is represented one letter short of the [d]evil. How does this vehicle narrative [again] make any sense??? IT DOESN’T. When you send those emails, just don’t bullet comments, include in-depth commentary with contrast and comparison by providing links [text, audio and visual]. Maybe if they get that overwhelmed, they will all ‘run for the hills’ and resign and then we can truly elect people who can stop following the ‘elite’ unrighteous, nepotism, tacit agendas and truly ‘put in place’ a system that operates within Humanities best interest and within coherent, sane, rational, logical, sensible, good intentions, and cost-effective methods. Here is direct access to the 4 pages of all the State Legs – https://legislature.vermont.gov/people/all/2020 –
Here is a list of all the current 2024 state legs emails:
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