California air board officials are floating compliance flexibility options for refuse and other heavy-duty trucks under their landmark proposed rule requiring medium- and heavy-duty truck fleets to begin purchasing zero-emission models in 2024, amid continued pressure from public and private fleets to...
The Heavy-Duty Vehicle Inspection Program will continue to augment the new testing requirements with inspections and testing randomly carried out at border crossings, California Highway Patrol weigh stations, fleet facilities and randomly selected roadside locations. The regulation expects to cover roughly ...
Increasing sales percentage requirements for Class 7 and 8 tractors to meet the goal of achieving an all zero-emission drayage fleet by 2035. This would intend to increase ZEV sales in all vehicle size categories and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. Allowing additional flexibility for manufact...
The agreement creating the Clean Truck Partnership includes flexibility for manufacturers to meet emissions requirements while still reaching the state’s climate and emission reduction goals, according to an announcement from CARB. The agreement is a “commitment from the companies to meet California’s...
California air regulators are adding light-duty vehicles used for “package, parcel or mail delivery” to their proposed requirements that fleet operators purchase zero-emission trucks beginning in 2024, prompting compliance concerns from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). “What mechanisms are in plac...
Including pickups in the ZEV sales requirement for the Class 2b-3 vehicle group (3/4-ton pickups) beginning with the 2024 model year, rather than excluding them until 2027. Increasing sales percentage requirements for Class 7 and 8 tractors to meet the goal of achieving an all zero-emission...
to their peers.Audit requirements should be used to target 'deep' retrofits, while automated or virtual audits could replace the existing need for traditional audit mandates.Since audit policies generate substantial data on building systems... CE Kontokosta,D Spiegel-Feld,S Papadopoulos - 《Nature...
Requirements –––– Implementation Schedule Monitors Standardization Testing Current Status California Environmental Protection Agency AIR RESOURCES BOARD Background OBD systems currently only required on passenger cars, light-duty trucks and mediumduty vehicles and engines (OBD II) Engine Manufacturer’s ...
s leading truck manufacturers and the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association that advances the development of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) for the commercial trucking industry, which includes flexibility for manufacturers to meet emissions requirements while still reaching the state’s climate...
An analysis of the sales and purchase requirements estimates that about 1.7 million zero-emission trucks will hit California roads by 2050. To support the needed infrastructure and services to make this transition, agencies across government have committed to the Zero-Emission Infrastructure Joint Agency...