Insanity. Shouldn’t we first prove that we can actually produce electric shipping trucks?
Sometimes, you just have to put out a marker for people to strive to achieve. Having an undefined target date leaves a large likelihood that progress will be at a leisurely pace.
How do you think we get all our food and raw materials around? With trucks!
But also the logic is flawed. No alternative need be proven when something is banned. Things are banned for reasons other than there are easy alternatives.
You should reevaluate your own logic. Banning critical infrastructure without a functioning alternative is observably a bad plan.
It's not like we proved we could put a man on the moon before committing to it.
Although given that almost every train runs on an electric engine (diesel is a liquid battery on diesel train) I have no doubt that we can produce electric shipping trucks. Also, electric shipping trucks already exist [1] but all this is tangential to my point.
Because shipping trucks deliver food to the grocery stores. Our supply chains would collapse if we suddenly cannot produce trucks.
I believe we’ll figure it out too. But banning the production of critical infrastructure without a working alternative is just plain dumb.
The law doesn't take effect until 2036 so claiming that your grocery store is going to be empty is just fear mongering. It's not like car companies were required to make high efficiency cars (i.e. >40mpg) and didn't and then the requirements were relaxed. Like the law will be changed if it becomes unmeetable.
I agree they’ll just repeal it if needed. What good does this law do then? So many people are relentlessly working on electric trucks for the financial incentive.
The second order effects are unknown to me. California auto manufacturers are never gonna invest in improving ICE vehicles if they think it’s about to be illegal.
We can see real life effects of policies like this during the recent oil shortage when demand far exceeded domestic refining capacity. Look at what happened to Germany and the EU because of their insane “environmentalist (but no nuclear)” policies.
Legislators suck and should get out of the way of technological progress.
/rant