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Ridgewood NJ, electric vehicle skeptics have frequently argued that the manufacturing and disposal of battery-electric vehicles like Teslas as well as reliance on coal to generate the electricity that powers them leaves EVs with a larger carbon footprint than nonelectric vehicles. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of studies that have tried to approve or disapprove this notion. But finally, the Manhattan Institute has compiled a comprehensive report ( https://manhattan.institute/article/electric-vehicles-for-everyone-the-impossible-dream ) that compares lifetime greenhouse gas emissions of EVs vs. ICEs by looking at dozens of parameters and data points.
A new study from the Manhattan Institute concluded that certain EVs emit more greenhouse gas emissions over their lifetime than certain ICE vehicles.
According to the report, the possibilities of GHG emissions for EVs is much wider than for ICEs.
In base case scenarios, EVs start off as having more emissions mainly due to the energy intensity of the EV and battery metals used in their manufacture but eventually catch up to EVs around the 60,000 driven miles mark.
On the very same day the Manhattan Institute report came out Governor Phil Murphy announced that the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) is officially proposing the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII) standards. Publication in the New Jersey Register is anticipated for August 21, more than six months after the Governor’s announcement of his intention to adopt this life-saving program. The rule proposal will kick off a 60 day public comment period and create a tight end-of-year deadline for the rule’s adoption this calendar year.
The ACCII program, finalized by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in August 2022, would ramp up sales requirements for new passenger vehicle cars and light trucks to be electric vehicles (with a small percentage of plug-ins) over the course of the next decade, with a 100% EV sales requirement by 2035. Adopting the program this calendar year will trigger the requirements to kick in in Model Year 2027, but a further delay into 2024 would mean a missed model year, more than 90,000 fewer EVS on New Jersey’s roads by 2030, and fewer used EVs available for consumers. This could all but guarantee interested New Jersey residents will be shopping in a neighboring ACCII state to purchase their EV or hybrid vehicle of choice.
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