- by CALSTART, Peter Jenkins, Owen MacDonnell, Dan Welch, Cristiano Façanha, Ph.D.,

This paper summarizes California’s ongoing efforts to improve air quality, fight climate change, and spur transportation sector innovation by creating a supportive ecosystem for Zero-Emission Commercial Vehicles (ZECV) deployment through multiple aligned policies, regulations, incentives, infrastructure investments, and pilot projects. This approach has enabled California to steadily increase both its policy ambitions and market readiness for ZECV deployment – leading to the first-of-its-kind Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) regulation adopted in June 2020, requiring the the sale of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (ZE-MHDVs) beginning with Model Year 2024, and establishing 100% goal for sale of new passenger vehicles be zero-emission by 2035, and that 100% of MHDVs be zero-emission by 2045 for all application where feasible, and by 2035 for drayage trucks.