Rhode Island Seeks To Mandate Electric Vehicle Sales By 2030
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New legislation introduced by a Democratic Senator in Rhode Island would outlaw the sale of all new internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030 with the aim of driving electric vehicle adoption in the state.
Legislation S2448, which was put forth by Sen. Alana DiMario, D-North Kingstown, would outlaw the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles for both public fleets and private ownership. The ban on internal combustion engine vehicles under private ownership would actually come into effect in 2027, while the ban on gas or diesel-powered passenger vehicles for public fleet use would come into effect in 2030. The legislation would also require one hundred percent of school buses in operation in the state to be battery-electric by 2030.
While the legislation’s lofty goals could prove to be difficult for Rhode Island to meet, it outlines a somewhat more realistic target for medium and heavy-duty vehicles. Under DiMario’s legislation, 30 percent of all new medium and heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state must be battery-electric. This would include larger fleet trucks like the Chevy Silverado Medium Duty, as well as box trucks like the Chevy Low Cab Forward.
In addition to these sales targets, the legislation would establish a framework to determine the infrastructure improvements needed to bring the state’s charging grid to an adequate level. It would also create an environmental justice board “to ensure that overburdened and underserved communities are able to provide meaningful input into decision-making processes relating to investment in clean transportation,” and that these areas “are not left behind in the transition to electric transportation.”
“We know this transition needs to happen and we need a strategy and a plan to get there,” DiMario said in a statement. “By 2030, every Rhode Islander buying a new car should be able to go electric without worrying where they are going to charge.”
GM will be happy to see states like Rhode Island prioritizing electric vehicle adoption, as it will have a wide variety of EVs on sale by 2030 – including sedans, pickup trucks and crossovers. The automaker also plans to ditch all emissions-producing products from its retail vehicle lineup by 2035, including light-duty trucks.
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Is Rhode Island still even a place?
I hardly know the place. I think he was a coffee boy in my administration.
Yea joe Biden did use to work there
Biden never held a job in his life. He always fed at the Public trough.
Rockheaded Demo females at it again, make it before your next term so you know what got you out of office…
You beat me to it. Naturally, you’d expect to find a “D” ( D for Dummy ) behind this idiot’s name.
Yeah good luck with that.
Just making ownership of better made 2000s cars more and more appealing.
This isn’t going to pass in its current iteration. Keep your panties on everyone.
Bill is actually S2448 (mis-numbered in the article) if anyone is looking it up. thank goodness it’s been tabled. the amount of crazy bills put forth by progressives in RI is astounding.
Has anyone figured out how all these evs will be able to charge in city/urban areas where parking is a chore? Not to mention the impact on the electric grid? Seems the charger port is on the left side of evs? If parallel parked, that means if charger is available, cord has to go over vehicle?
You’re mistake is applying logic to the EV argument. Look, fat, listen up. Come on, man. A man with 3 beachhouses says the oceans gonna rise if we don’t switch to EVs (please ignore all EV lovers investment portfolios). Do you really need to think deeper about it? A man with a private jet is gonna fly from his island to California to let you know the climate is changing and YOU need to reduce your LOCAL carbon footprint. Just obey!
Commie see commie do…..
1. Where will all the batteries go when they are junk?
2. Do you realize how many emissions are released when manufacturing EVs versus ICEs?
3. Unrealistic goal
4. They could stop production of ICEs and only build EVs from one point on but they’ll never get rid of all the ICEs.
Plus iron ore and aluminum for ICE vehicles is a lot more abundant than lithium, nickel, and copper.
They’re already recycling the batteries. I thought everyone new that.
So how will all the people who live in apartment and Condo complexes recharge their vehicles? And all the people who don’t have access to a garage? I guess they are counting on being able to stretch extension cords across the state.
I’m thankful to God to be a resident of the Free State of Florida.
Will the last taxpaying, working person leaving New England please turn off the light ? The ones who are left there are going to need the electricity…..
Will the last working, tax paying citizen leaving the Northeast please shut off the light ? The ones that are left are going to need that electricity…
Hydrogen fueled common engines will rewrite the map before then. Zero pullution and more enviromentally to produce without rare metals.
Let us hope so.
Maybe the relatively new Catalytic method of extracting Hydrogen from water will be in use by then ?
But only Toyota seems to be devoting R&D money to Hydrogen vehicle power while the Dolt running GM continues to smooch Biden’s behind with nothing but EV’s.
Doesn’t it take a lot of electricity to produce hydrogen (electrolysis)?
nope. not using one of about three new technologies that have been developed. Try searching for Hydrogen via Catalyst or similar and there are numerous articles about the latest and greatest discoveries which bypasses both splitting the H20 molecule with loads of electricity and using Methane to generate H. Storing highly compressed Hydrogen in an on-board vehicle’s pressure tank does not create a Hindenberg/Zeppelin problem which has been proven by shooting a pressure tank with a rifle and the gas simply blew out of the bullet hole without creating any explosion or flash fire.
The Hindenburg Exploded due to the Boron/Aluminum ‘Skin’ catching fire as it was poorly bonded section to section – bad news when the Airship was struck by lightning only a short time earlier.
Back when Public Television’s NOVA was an informative television program at least 30 years ago (its a really junk special effects program now – which can’t get even basic science accurate), a retired NASA engineer said,
“Boron and Aluminum (???? !!!!!) – that’s what solid (FUEL) rocket boosters are made of !!!!”.
(Later designs of the Zeppelin company showed much, much decrease in BORON composition, plus much improved BONDING of the skin sections). So they KNEW what caused the problem but never advertised it since they’d be continually sued.
The point is – while the Hydrogen eventually did catch fire, it wasn’t any more dangerous than Helium.
The problem with Hydrogen for cars (besides Dispensary Explosions) is paying the equivalent of $USD 16 per gallon. Since people HATE paying the current $4.50 a gallon – fat chance anyone will voluntarily pay for the expensive H2.
Hydrogen vehicles are LEASED in California and Arizona for 3 years *AND* have the little detail of FREE FUEL for either 3 years or 15,000 miles… Then they are not leased again. So – of course people if given a BONANZA will take a Hydrogen Car… But they’re an IMPOSSIBLE sale otherwise.
Those costs per gallon of H are coming way down with the new methods of extracting H. Biggest issue now is less energy per gallon than what gas has to offer which makes fuel cells more attractive than H-fueled ICE. Renewable fuel cells are the current answer far better than overloading the already overloaded grid and we aren’t buying Lithium from the Chinese and Nickel from Putin. fr8bil
If anything, Hydrogen would be better suited for commercial rather than personal use because of volatility.
Volatility via compressed H at either the pump or with a ruptured, mobile storage tank has been disproven. Liquified H at less than -200 F is another story but the industry is not headed in that direction.
fr8bil –
Disproven huh? By whom? 10,000 Pounds per square inch gets dangerous when you have a large number of square inches – namely damage to the whole neighborhood when the Dispensary explodes.
But yes, I expect that now they are using or experimenting with an improvement over the old Diaphram compressors currently used will lower the price to a much more reasonable $11 per Gasoline Gallon Equivalent (GGE).
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the Governator’s “Hydrogen Highway”.
Big cities in the USA, more or less by design – since no one in their right minds would let the total decimation of valuable properties without a reason – are all turning into hell holes anyway..
Whether or not they have Toyota Mirais on them is doubtful since anyone possessing one would not take the chance of getting car-jacked.
All RI School Buses to be electric too …..never mind Paris, France just removed 133 EV buses from service due to two of them spontaneously erupting into massive fires while in service on Paris streets. Parisian Firefighters then struggled to extinguish Lithium fires ( and they were big fires on big bus batteries ) which are very difficult to stop using only water.
Rhode Islanders want their precious children transported on these things ?
Indianapolis tried electric mass transit buses and they failed spectacularly in the first winter. Many were stranded due to lower battery efficiency, but who didn’t already know that??
They sure are trying really hard to get their party unelected
Totally Stupid to completely ban Internal Combustion Vehicles…
I drive 3 plug-in cars – and while EVs do not cause the problems that people fear (eg: recycling not a big problem – electricity outages will happen in the “WOKE” states (Including Texas) WITH OR WITHOUT electric cars), there is no way a modern society can be prosperous without traditional fuel sources….
Fortunately, these Dems that propose these things are too stupid to legislate an effective program anyway.
That’s not letting all the Republicans off the hook….. By Warmongering and threatening other countries, they’ve increased Biden’s popularity from 32 to 40 percent (!!!!!). Talk about “Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory”.
I wonder why I bother voting: You vote Repub and you get a warmongering Socialist. You vote Dem and you get a warmongering Communist.
Good luck Rhode Island on your bold adventure into never never land! Electric vehicles, Not only do they not produce sufficient torque to do normal hauling chores, they are fire hazards. “DO NOT PARK THEM IN ENCLOSED GARAGES IF YOU VALUE YOUR HOME”!
Why do they have all these dumb ” awaiting moderation” bots preventing me from commenting? Its obvious I’m not saying anything insulting nor even controversial.
More evdiots!
It failed in the 1800’s and it will fail now,not a new technology,can’t go on long trips,what takes 3 days to get somewhere will now take 5,and in order to make the electricity for those doomed cars and trucks you have to burn fossil fuels to get it so who’s ever brainfart idea the electric car war was,good luck with all that,electric cars spells failure.