New Jersey needs to be realistic and plan a viable path to reach its EV goals. ACCII requires EV sales to reach 35% by 2026, increasing at a substantial rate until reaching 100% in 2035. That’s a 26% increase in EV sales over the next three years when it took nearly a decade for New Jersey to reach 9% EV sales. New Jersey can’t arbitrarily pick an EV sales percentage and assign it a date. It’s not a choice between ACCII and nothing. It’s a choice between an unrealistic ACCII and the Biden Administration’s significantly more stringent EPA Clean Car Rule that was recently proposed. The EPA rule gives New Jersey a viable alternative path to compliance that doesn’t harm consumers. Specific EV sales percentages aren’t mandated by the EPA’s proposed rule, but it does force automakers to produce more EVs. By comparison, ACCII locks New Jersey into a rule built for the California EV market and creates a wide variety of unintended headaches and obstacles for consumers, dealers and manufacturers. NJ CAR has encouraged the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to review ALL options and conduct a cost/benefit analysis on each option before making a decision that will hurt New Jersey consumers and the $40 billion auto retailing industry that is a key driver of the Garden State economy. 11 NEW JERSEY auto retailer
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