Wyoming Seeking To Phase Out EV Sales By 2035
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As the state of California and others move to phase out the sale of internal-combustion-powered passenger vehicles, the state of Wyoming has announced it’s moving a different direction with plans to phase out EV sales by the 2035 calendar year.
The new state senate joint resolution (no. SJ0004) is titled “Phasing Out New Electric Vehicle Sales by 2035,” and was introduced last Friday with support from members of the Wyoming House of Representatives and Senate.
The resolution lays out a number of justifications for phasing out EV sales, the most prominent of which is Wyoming’s reliance on oil and gas production. Although Wyoming is the least-populace state in the U.S., it’s also one of the biggest producers of crude oil.
“WHEREAS, the United States has consistently invested in the oil and gas industry to sustain gas-powered vehicles, and that investment has resulted in the continued employment of thousands of people in the oil and gas industry in Wyoming and throughout the country,” the resolution states.
The EV sales resolution goes on to state that Wyoming’s “vast stretches of highway” and lack of EV charging infrastructure make electric vehicles impractical, while adding that widespread EV adoption would necessitate “massive amounts of new power generation in order to sustain the misadventure of electric vehicles.” The resolution states that fossil fuels will be vital for the transportation of goods and people across Wyoming and the U.S. for years to come.
Finally, the resolution states that EV production relies on critical minerals that are vulnerable to disruption, and that EV batteries “are not easily recyclable or disposable,” and thus landfills will require development to safely dispose of a supposed influx of EV battery waste.
Critically, the resolution isn’t an outright ban on EV sales. Rather, it “encourages” Wyoming industry and citizens limit EV sales, with the eventual goal of phasing out new EV sales by 2035.
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good, the ev revolution is nothing more than a fad
Liberals in for a rude awakening.
That’s right, they are in for it big time.
Exactly why I moved away from Wyoming. They are generally a backwards society. Some thoughtful and good people but mostly backwards looking folks sheltered from the outside world living their lives in their own tiny sphere. I hope they have fun building their own vehicles because in the next 25 years ICE will be a niche market for those that want to fiddle with obsolete technology.
That is big ole middle finger to the woke!!!!!! And the climate kooks!!!!
Could be a “CRUDE ” awakening. Sorry couldn’t resist…
A pointless virtue-signaling exercise on Wyoming’s part that will only be repealed by the time ICE vehicles get phased out by the automakers in the rest of the nation and residents have no other options.
It’s foolish to assume a tiny market like Wyoming will have any impact on the industry.
Wyoming and other non woke states should mandate hydrogen fuel cell cars.
You want GM to sell Hindenburgs?
No hydrogen car ever caught fire.
Likely correct no hydrogen cars that blew up but there is hardly any hydrogen fuel cells out there just yet but i am aware that two hydrogen fueling stations blew up. Hydrogen has a lot of potential but it is highly flammable and the technology is not there just yet for it to face the usual car accident. I do think that hydrogen fuel cells could be pushed in commercial vehicules, bus and train. Also the amount of energy needed to create Hydrogen is rather high compare to electricity for EV, we would need to ramp up electricity production a lot more to manage a fleet of hydrogen vehicules compare to EV vehicules at least under current technology.
Fake news. Hydrogen is suppressed by wokism. There might have been one or two hydrogen fueling stations that blew up, but the fires were put out quickly. EVs stay on fire for hours and they are impossible to put out quickly with today’s technology. Hydrogen is also way more efficient than EVs because it comes from water. You don’t need battery materials that kill African children digging virtues out of the ground without the protection of regulations or a caring company willing to pay a fair wage.
The dreaded word and funnily you do it and even worse than I but i tend to call that simple misinformation. Both hydrogen and EV have issues but i think both have their place if and it is a big if electricity used to generate hydrogen and power EV is from a renewable source. While i dislike government intervention, african children mining is feeding the car industry and electronic industry and a lot of it go in ICE vehicle, batteries used a lot less rare earth than they used to but yeah all industries should be more ethical and refuse to buy it from some sources. It is unacceptable all we need is to put laws in place to ensure that sources of materials are only bought if a minimum amount of decency and no child labour is used, problem is solved, it’s even worse ‘wokism ‘ to use this argument to prevent EV when with a little gvt intervention and public pressure that can stop quickly and actually should already be in place but human being is a greedy beast. We still have issue to store and prevent explosion since hydrogen is highly volatile but absolutely EV fire are difficult to extinguish. As both science around these technologies increase i think both have a place and help reduce the biggest problem we face as a race, global warming due to gas emission of an industrial society. I do actually believe that hydrogen will end up being greener but creating the infrastructure will be way more costly than for EV and i think EV is a good transition between the best, hydrogen and ICE.
The end shoudl read the best which is hydrogen and the worse combustion engine using fossil fuel.
So is the internet.
The internet didn’t stop the non internet. EVs can’t replace non EVs.
@Afi K. James
So let me get this straight.
The Worlds Auto Sector collectively have already committed in contacts to spend 1.2 Trillion (Yeah Trillion) by 2026 and you think that the Switch to EV’s is a Fad?
Am I understanding you correctly?
It is so comical to me that some People are seriously not understanding what is happening in the World simply because they hold certain beliefs which might be personal vehicle preferences or Political preferences.
There is no Stopping this Switch. Keep buying used in the Future I guess.
I am a GM fan and want them to be the Best at BEV’s as that is the Future.
In my opinion being anti BEV’s is basically the same as saying you are not a GM fan (Not Specifically you just a General Statement) and are not rooting for them to be successful for another Century and also you would be ok with people losing their GM Jobs just as long as you can keep getting your ICE vehicles.
EVs are a race to the bottom. Battery mining and electricity generation pollute more than a gas car, batteries can’t be recycled, there is no electrical infrastructure, it’s all a climate hoax. Yes, it IS political, nothing is based in reality. That’s why there are no hydrogen cars, they are suppressed because conservatives want them and liberals want EVs.
If we could just drill more and stop cancelling pipelines, gas would be 25 cents a gallon.
So false and misinformed and stop playing the ostrich, petroleum is a finite resource that we will run out of eventually and they will never sell it at 25 cents a gallons, the petroleum industries made record profit and blamed the ukraine war, if prices had soared but not the profit it would have been different but it’s pure greed from an industry. While i agree that mining lithium and other metal and some type of electricity are creating pollution and that if you compare it to an oil well in Saudi Arabia, it pollutes more but when you do proper research and look at the pollution level of some of the newer extraction method such as fracking and the oil sand in Alberta, it’s start to look better and the EV does not pollute once built and material in batteries are starting to be recyclable at 85% with some ventures claiming 95%.
Hydrogen takes even more electricity to extract the hydrogen out of the water and as long as long as electricity is not coming from a renewable source it’s a liability for the usage of both EV and Hydrogen.
I suggest you read this rather good article where Volkswagon explain why they are not going hydrogen just yet.
https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2019/08/hydrogen-or-battery–that-is-the-question.html#
I assume GM is using the same if not similar reasoning, no ‘liberal’ or conservative trying to suppress hydrogen, it’s just too expensive under current technology level. Ah well i’m probably just wasting my time with you but Honda and a few of the big car manufacturers are putting a lot of money into r&d for Hydrogen, one can hope that new technology will make it more affordable so that it can become a viable solution.
Everything in that post is fake news. You actually trust what VW says?
Never trust one source but it is a truthful summary of the situation. I studied in engineering and did a few projects on fuel cells and Hydrogen in University and I know that it describes rather well the current state. Honda is not giving up on R&D for Hydrogen and I hope VW and other keep at it but you see I know Hydrogen is highly explosive and unstable by its nature, it’s not that easy to work with and science and technology is not quite there yet so yes , I think the article is true enough to be worth a read. But you can chose to believe it or not and hopefully research the topic from other valid source to make up your mind. Unfortunately quite a few think tanks are paid to find the flaws to justify some lobby groups, industries and rich individuals interest rather than the best interest for all and hence truth is harder to find now a day…
I’m so glad some state is getting with the DUMP the EV’s. The green people are worse than the US government. Since when do we have to copy California. With all the stupid laws anyway. Now if the Dokota’s jump on and the rest of the mid-west will do the same. Il. is too stupid to try to get on board with the Gov. we have.
while i’m all for protecting the planet, this is not the way to do it.
ICE will be around for many years. Where do we dump EV batteries?
GM recycles dead EV batteries. No need to dump them.
How can GM recycle ev batteries? There isn’t any infrastructure for that. They collect the batteries, but they probably just dump them somewhere. Come back with evidence.
Need a history lesson. Conservatives tried to stop the adoption of electricity to save the kerosene industry. Everything moves forward eventually and the economy will change and adapt. Maybe fossil fuels can be made from dinosaur conservatives.
Tell that to the people who lost their ev’s in a fire.
Hydrogen fuel cell cars never killed anybody. EVs have.
thank you, this is worse than gasoline.
I’m still waiting for comment from the Buggy Whip Manufacturers Association.
People still ride horses and yes, they still make buggies.
This state has only a population of half a million, most of the population owes their jobs to Oil, so this is more a cry for help to diversify, more vehicle plants or mines. I don’t see this actually passing, only to signal they need assistance.
plus over 65% of americans think this nation is on the wrong track.
I guess w Wyoming’s lack of charging infrastructure their tourism attractions will dry up and shrivel. Nothing like marching backwards at full speed.
But that’s only the people that voted with that survey, Surveys are a joke. Silent majority. You get full when you get full!!!
because it’s the truth and you know it.
I wish Canadian Provinces could make their own rules that work for them. 50% of the population of Canada live in Toronto and surrounding Area, Montreal and surrounding area, and Vancouver and surrounding area. As a result, all of the rest of the country has rules created for them by the big city. (worse now than ever)
Trying to install adequate charging infrastructure in northern Saskatchewan to force the rural farming community to go EV is ridiculous…but the feds and big cities don’t care.
plus the poor and middle class can’t afford it and we are also in almost 32 trillion dollars in debt, how can we afford it?
thank you for giving it a thumbs up.
I wish Albert and Saskatchewan would apply for USA statehood. We could use you common sense hard working guys.
You could always move Steve! Canada has no interest in joining the states since we are progressing a lot quicker with being green. Aside from the two provinces you mentioned, most of the electricity generated in Canada is green coming from hydro or nuclear. The states on the other hand are mostly on gas or coal… So archaic and old, they have a long way to go but feel free to leave friend if you don’t like it.
I’m already in the free country of the south. We need more people like us to join. You can keep Montreal
Each province can actually make their own rules in this regard. I think the laws are good for the initial push for a greener future, whether that is BEV’s or another source of energy such as hydrogen, only time will tell. Your province won’t make a law that doesn’t work for it’s constituants because they are the ones that elect them. We have been talking about going green for too long and little action on it and now we need a push… That’s all. They will amend these as we get closer to the dates and since Saskatchewan gets it’s electricity from natural gas mostly… I think that needs to be changed first.
Prove it. Your statement is nonsense.
I get a headache when I roll my eyes as hard as I just did reading this.
Poor you, should we cry for you too?
By context I’d assume you live in a big city
Good. Kick ’em in the teeth.
Who? Customers who want more choice? So much for freedom I guess.
You want freedom? Go to Russia, North Korea etc. You have tons of freedom in the US. Read a little.
Talk about politicians that are stuck in the past. Maybe they should ban all transportation except for by horse or by train.
It’s time these politicians got off their butts and figure out ways to move their state forward toward a prosperous future versus stuck in the past.
then focus on oil here in america
oil is the past for transportation, sure oil will still be needed for rubber or plastics, but there are better technologies out there now and into the future for transportation and energy generation that Oil no longer good for.
couldn’t disagree more, there is more oil in alaska, texas and some other states, face it, we don’t have the infrastructure here in america for ev’s and others.
I’m sure blacksmiths said the same thing 120 years ago.
Problem is, OPEC will continue to undercut our oil industry in order to keep strict control of market share. They are all nationalized. We aren’t. We are catalytic crack addicts, and they are the dealers. Maybe Nat Gas can be our methadone. 75% of every gallon of gas or diesel burned is p!ssed away out the tailpipe or in the block……90% of the energy in a battery us used for propulsion.
2035 is a $hit ton of years away. The technology turnover in that time period will render how many products sold today as obsolete…..unless you have a way to squeeze more than 124,000 btu’s out of a gallon of gas, crude oil will become obsolete as a fuel.
Let technology do it’s thing.
The Infrastructure is there and expanding at a rapid pace, the grid only needs to grow about 30% and that is completely doable over the following decades, EVs aren’t going to replace ICE over night either… and as for charging EVs will be charging at multiple points of the day not all at once so the grid won’t be as taxed as people think.
EVs also provide the opportunity for micro grids, people can plug their cars in and EVs charging can help stabilize the grid during peek times by providing excess power back into the grid and people can get paid for it.
And EV’S aren’t going to be charged every day, either. No gas station in the country could handle a neighborhood full of cars needing fuel all at once…..which, THEY DON’T
Thank you, we need to stop spending money to ukraine and focus on here in america.
and i’m sick of people giving it a thumbs down, we should stop spending to ukraine period, i support the people of ukraine, but let them have their chance of destiny, we need to focus on here in america.
So you want Communism. Go to Russia and fight.
Ukraine is the biggest scam. $133 billon with zero oversite…………. If my house was on fire I would get out……..What are protecting? Ground zero! The Russians will not have enpough money to rebuild in 10 years if they were take over now. This is a religious war now. GET OUT!! Zelensky will be the next oligarch with American money and our stash of weapons. A ton of that money will be going back to the Democrats.
our founders of this country would be appalled and so would jfk and reagan
No we don’t, the poor and middle class still can’t afford it, so sorry.
The infrastructure needs to exspand 300%, not 30%.
I don’t think many people realize what kind of bubble they are in. Only a small percentage of America lives in a townhouse 15 miles from their job, clocks into work every day, shuffles some files and comes home.
America is a vibrant mobile economy with trucks, tractors, mining equipment, everything! The average commute time in America is 30 minutes, so half of America is driving 60+ miles per day with many over 100 miles, especially on errands day. Even for commuter vehicles that would be a stretch, doubling the housing power load.
Now if they want to replace the physical trucks that run everything, no dice. We’re talking 6-800% increase. 70% of the actual energy in the state of Iowa isn’t not gas, nor coal, nor wind power…. It’s diesel fuel. That’s the breadbasket of the world, and the John Deere and Steigers there alone could power an independent substation. Go west to the dakotas or wyoming. That’s ranchland. Many houses run off the grid on independent generators already. Cattle are moved by ATV and truck. Gas outnumbers the grid in terms of BTU’s by leaps and bounds.
Now the current grid is stable at its current level, but if you remove gas heaters from any of the Northwest Territories states, even that 30% increase your claiming won’t be able to compensate for that load increase alone.
LA county California is far from being you standard American household.
Afi K. James: And with people like you doing everything you can to keep us in the past, and with moron politicians who make bills like this when they don’t fully understand what they are even talking about, the US would never have the infrastructure needed. So thank god we have forward thinking companies and a hand full of politicians that do understand that we can’t keep doing what we have been for the past 100 years.
I’m not for banning ICE 100% or even 75%, and I agree that the world must figure out a cleaner way for future EV’s, but staying stuck in the past like you suggest is a really bad idea. What Wyoming should be doing is embracing the EV move and looking at how they can become a big player there to replace the oil industry they have. That would be proactive and smart.
then you better off going back in the past, because take my advice, we don’t have the infrastructure period, plus the poor and middle class they can’t afford it, how can we afford it damn it when we are over 31 trillion dollars in debt.
Afi: I would turn your question around on you. How can we afford to NOT take action? Again, I’m not pushing everyone to EV. There are many people and businesses that may not be ready for EV for another 20 to 30 years. And no matter, the world needs to create a sustainable system for making and powering EV’s while we continue to work at making ICE cleaner and better MPG’s.
So maybe your contribution to help the earth reverse the damages we are causing would be to make an effort to drive less. Maybe slow down. Maybe buy a newer more efficient ice vehicle. Maybe reinvest more into older cars to make them pollute less. My point is that we can all do things to help without buying an EV.
Then make it 32 billion in debt, or get yourself an ox cart and some haystacks. You want cheap India or China made ICE cars? Who do you think is foolish enough to destroy their grandkids world?
Yes….. like Florida
Yeah, livery stables and hay barns will be making a comeback if that happens.
EVs are not feasible for a large area state with the population of a mid-size city.
Heavy government EV welfare required for people passing through
plus we don’t have the infrastructure here in america.
Mr. James, do you use oil lamps for illumination? Or hand crank your gas engines? You are so STUPID to ignore electric power!
BTW, most EV owners get their charge at their homes for free from solar power, like I do. We don’t need your stinking oil to move ourselves anymore! Put your oil up your @$$ like an enema!
Comparing EVs to whale oil and horse and buggy is not fair and not the same. They are completely different. EVs are going BACKWARDS not forwards. The first cars were electric and nobody wanted them after gas.
Troll. I’ve never read such gibberish. What are are you? ChatGPT? Oh, no then there would be some logic and common sense in what you say. Get a grip man. This is coming and fast.
Finally a state with balls!!!
hopefully, florida, texas and others states will follow suit.
The only good thing to come out of Wyoming is I-80.
Unless federal laws are repealed this changes nothing.
I like the symbolic stand but sadly they sell too few cars in Wyoming bot make this really matter.
At best even if ICE remains we will continue to see EV more in play.
I think it’s more of a shot over detroits bow. If Wyoming does it, then Florida, Texas may follow suit. Next thing you know automakers are going to half to plan on keeping ICE in circulation if they want to stay compeditive. After all the Great Reset is all about corporations taking up the bully pulpit. I think Wyoming is sending a message of “2 can play at this game if you want. Don’t play it, seriously back down.” After all, tea party conservatives are all about freedom of choice, so this is a violation of their principles.
Ha, you think FL and TX will ban EVs? Talk about inability to think logically. Reality is, in FL, EVs will soon make up 10% of the market and growing quickly. In TX, they have allowed Musk to build a huge EV production facility and move Tesla HQ to Austin. Neither state will be banning EV sales. Additionally, as more and more manufacturers build out EV production facilities in the SE, EV adoption will skyrocket in that part of the country.
Go ahead and keep burying your head in the sand. You’ll still get to buy ICE if you want but if you think they’re expensive now, you haven’t seen anything yet.
You are kinda right about Texas with all of musks investment, but you forget, Florida has just for the first time ever gotten a filibuster proof majority in its general assembly. Desantis has had in all reality, very little success changing the laws there because of it. Florida is just getting started.
More than likely Louisiana, Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahoma will lead the charge on this, Florida will follow, and Texas will in all honesty be last for 1 reason…… Texans HATE being outdone.
I’m a little shocked at some of these comments.
I can understand not being ready to by an EV yourself (I’m in that position). I can understand not supporting a government ban on ICE cars at this point (there’s not one, but I can understand the policy objections). I can even understand not liking EVs because of some manufactured abstract nostalgia or something (hey, we’re all human and imperfect).
But supporting an *active ban* on EVs? Really? You don’t like them, so no one else is allowed to have them? Please explain how your thought process works. Take us through it step by step.
I see the Wyoming ban as a parody of what is going on in other places with the ICE ban. It looks and sounds ridiculous to you, right? How do you think the ICE ban sounds to others? I think options are what most people want. Are you asking the people and states banning ICE these same questions?
It’s not equivalent because banning ICE cars would yield some good in terms of the environment. From an enthusiast standpoint, they’re also superior on many fronts. There are also enough drawbacks that the choice still needs to be personal at this point.
Thus, even if you feel an ICE ban is misguided or ill-timed, it’s at least designed to effect positive change.
On the other hand an EV ban has no positives other than posturing. If anyone feels the role of elected officials is to engage in petty sniping for show like this, I suppose the legislature’s move makes sense.
EV makers are going to get a real lesson on how stubborn folks can be when pushed towards this EV fantasy. The auto makers who don’t go all in on this EV nonsense will buy up the others.
What automakers? They are all building EVs.
mr. james will wake up to the silence of no more gas or diesel cars in the entire world soon. Then what will he do with all that oil? Use it as his own enema?
And they probably don’t want their mineral rich state scrapped raw, down to bedrock, corner to corner, for minerals for EV batteries. Ever been there? I don’t blame them..
Used to live there. That is exactly what they want. The just don’t have the right minerals for this industry. Go to Gillette and the surrounding area if you want to see a raped landscape or try Pinedale where the gas fields extend for miles and miles driving sage grouse, prong horn and thousands of desert flora to the edge of extinction… Oh yes, marty. They willing scrape their land from corner. Now they’re pissed we don’t need what they got.
i would guess it gets pretty cold there in the winter and EVs don’t do well in cold weather so they are doing their voters a favor.
Lithium batteries are easily recyclable. And is a great economic opportunity. They are already doing it in Nevada.
Nevada is nowhere near Michigan or Wyoming. Nobody’s going to take their used EV battery and drive it across the country to recycle it. All the “recycling” centers do is export things to Asia where the materials are burned. There is no such thing as “recycling”.
I like it…although given enough time EV will fail anyway.
Why will they fail? Explain yourself.
There’s no demand for EVs anymore. Look at Tesla stock price. Cuts in prices, cuts in China sales, etc. I’m long on GM because they have gas cars that will still be on sale after Tesla’s bankruptcy.
Somewhere Barry Croft Sr is shaking his head in disbelief after reading Jr’s comments.
I except your apology Barry Croft Sr.
Tesla stock price went down in part because of Musk went and decided to play and pay 44 billion with Twitter and stopped paying to Tesla, making investor afraid notwithstanding higher interest rate impacting every car manufacturer but especially Tesla, he is asking too much for the car. they had to drop price by 15k$. Tesla is an overpriced car.
I’m glad that a small market like Wyoming will adopt such a resolution. The infrastructure for electric vehicles requires a huge huge investment and given the technology batteries have a limited life cycle and hopefully will last longer in the future. Disposal of the batteries is very detrimental to the environment. Additionally, mining of lithium and cobalt requires huge machines which emit huge amounts of carbon monoxide. Whether we have EVs or ICE vehicles in the future, technology is going to take us to a place where each of them are more environmentally friendly. CO is a product of man, however, we need to understand whether is cyclical and within each cycle there are raised temperatures or lower temperatures. I’m no scientist, however I have read several journals to explain the fact of where the world is today. And to be quite honest, the United States is a clean country compared to India or China.
thank you.
Mr. Lopez, it’s “least-populous.”
They are batterys not electic . The truth is nobody wants them pushed on us. If you want a golf cart with all the bells and whistles OK then. The true classics and modern cars and trucks the craftsmanship is hear to stay. Thank your forefathers hard work. Love one another my brothers and sisters. We can accomplish great things together .We can have both !!
I’m thanking all four of my fathers….
thank you.