What’s important to know is that the Advanced Clean Cars II rule is very specific in that it requires carmakers to increase their EV offerings in certain states over a period of several years. The ultimate goal is to achieve 35% zero-emission vehicle sales for the 2026 model year and 100% by 2035. Some of these states include Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, and New York, and the report placed a specific focus on these four to show the potential benefits of ACC II adoption.
Each state’s governor has already announced it will either adopt ACC II or it’s strongly considering doing so. In New Mexico, for example, the report states that “ACC II adoption could push [its] EV sale shares to 68% by 2030, and 100% by 2035, compared to 59% and 47% by those same years (and 73% by 2050) under the IRA-only scenario.”
Perhaps one of the states’ biggest challenges is something that’s already a problem: infrastructure. Tesla’s Supercharging network is undeniably better than the current crop of competitors, like Electrify America and ChargePoint.