surely cons will celebrate, surely... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/s...-a-statewide-mandate/ar-AAPIDrD?ocid=msedgntp Supreme Court refuses to stop vaccine mandates for health workers in Maine - the first time it weighed in on a statewide mandate
%% Amen; even DAL + LUV get that, they have to unless they want 20-30% associates walking off for not wanting experimental gov rush job jabs........................................................................
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - General Motors Co (GM.N) on Sunday said it had agreed to recognize California’s authority to set vehicle emission standards under the Clean Air Act. The move will make the Detroit automaker eligible for government fleet purchases by the state of California, GM said. The automaker made the commitment to recognize California's authority in a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom. GM said in the letter it is "committed to complying with California's regulations." Soon after Joe Biden was elected president, GM in November 2020 reversed itself and no longer backed an effort by the then-Trump administration to bar California from setting its own emissions rules. "GM is joining California in our fight for clean air and emission reduction as part of the company's pursuit of a zero-emissions future," Newsom said. "This agreement will help accelerate California's nation-leading commitment to tackling the climate crisis." GM announced in January plans to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035. In June, GM boosted global spending on electric and autonomous vehicles to $35 billion through 2025, 30% over its prior forecast. "We are committed to working in collaboration with California to achieve an equitable transportation future," said GM's global public policy chief Omar Vargas. In November 2019, California said it planned to halt all purchases of new vehicles for state government fleets from GM, Toyota (7203.T) and other automakers backing former President Donald Trump in the tailpipe emissions battle. California said it purchased $58.6 million in General Motors vehicles between 2016 and 2018. In April, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it was moving to restore legal authority to California to set tough vehicle emission rules and zero-emission vehicle mandates. In July, 16 Republican state attorneys general urged the EPA to reject reinstating California's authority. "The Golden State is not a golden child," they wrote. GM previously backed overall emissions reductions in California's 2019 deal with rivals Ford Motor (F.N), Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), Honda (7267.T) and others, but asked the Biden administration to give automakers more flexibility to hit carbon reduction targets. California plans to ban the sale of new gasoline powered passenger vehicles starting in 2035, a step the Biden administration declines to endorse. Biden has called for 50% of new vehicles sold by 2030 to be electric or plug-in hybrid. Last month, the EPA finalized new vehicle emissions requirements through 2026 that reversed Trump's rollback of car pollution cuts and will speed a U.S. shift to more electric vehicles.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...ional-abortion-ban-lindsey-graham-1234592588/ Mike Pence Says Stripping Women of Rights More Important Than Midterm Gains The former vice president told RealClearPolitics that Republicans shouldn’t “shrink from the fight” to implement a national abortion ban
%% NO wonder GM went bankrupt. Please dont charge your EV ,CA asked recently.[EVEN if it ruins your life , @ least it does not use so much hated oil. Never mind all the fossil fuels it requires to run an EV] The good news is all the CA exits/ good moving van business
All the major brands are restructuring themselves towards having a separate EV division for sales and service. This sets the table to support the EV mandates in states like California while still keeping the traditional gas-based vehicles being sold in other states. Dealerships will be forced to evolve or be left behind. Ford Gives Dealers Six Weeks To Decide If They Want To Continue Selling EVs https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/new...o-continue-selling-evs/ar-AA11P0q4?li=BBnb7Kz Dealers are either all in on electrification or they're going to be left out. In what will certainly be met with resistance from many of its franchises, Ford dropped a bomb at its annual dealership meetings in Las Vegas this week. InsideEVs was one of only a handful of news outlets invited to get an early look at the new Model e dealership rules including a presentation from none other than Ford CEO, Jim Farley. In short, Ford is telling its dealer network they have to invest, evolve, improve, and offer new services if they want to be a Model e dealership and sell electric vehicles. Model e is a new division of Ford that was recently created when Ford split the company into three arms; Ford Blue Oval, Ford Pro, and Ford Model e. All of Ford's fully electric vehicles now fall under the Model e umbrella. Plug-in hybrids and regular hybrids are part of Ford Blue Oval. Ford's current three BEV offerings from left: Ford F-150 Lightning, Ford E-Transit and Ford Mustang Mach-E Farely talked a lot about Tesla, and how the startup electric vehicle manufacturer has roughly a $2,000 price advantage over Ford. He said that Ford and its dealers need to, and have been, working to narrow that gap. He explained how he believes that as Tesla scales up, it will be forced to change how it does business and its operations will begin to look more like traditional dealer networks. In fact, he's already seeing that in Tesla's operations in Norway. With that, he also believes that Ford needs to change the way it sells electric vehicles, and the first major steps to that transformation are happening now. Three Options Ford is giving its dealers until October 31st of this year - less than two months, to make a decision that will have huge implications for the future of the franchise. The company is offering its dealers three options: Become a Model e Certified Elite dealership Become a Model e Certified dealership Discontinue selling Model e vehicles effective January 1st, 2024. Amongst other things, Model e Elite dealers will need to install a minimum of two high-powered DC fast chargers as well as level 2 charging stations and have at least one DC fast charger available for the public to use. Ford estimates the all-in cost for dealers to become Model e certified elite to be between $1 and $1.2 million, with as much as 90% of the cost attributed to the cost to purchase and install the required charging infrastructure. Model e certified dealers are only required to install one DC fast charger, and it must be made available for public use. However, Model e certified dealers will have a hard cap on the number of EVs they are allowed to sell each year, and that number will be the same for all Model e certified shops, regardless of annual volume. We were told that Ford hasn't decided exactly what that number will be, but it will be small and intended to only satisfy orders for the dealer's most loyal customers. Ford estimates the cost for dealers to become Model e certified to be about $500,000, again, with as much as 90% of the cost attributed to charging infrastructure. We've been studying Tesla closely, especially with how their brand has scaled with units and operations in Norway and what we've noticed is that they have almost 1,200 employees now and they have very much dealer-like facilities and we think that's the direction they'll go as they scale their operations in the United States - Jim Farley, CEO, Ford Motor Company And finally, dealers have the option of not becoming Model e certified. If they choose that route, they give up the right to sell any fully electric Ford vehicles for three years. At some point in 2025, they will have the opportunity to tell Ford that they wish to become a Model e certified or certified elite dealership, and provided they complete the requirements, they will be allowed to start selling EVs in January 2027. If they do choose to opt out of becoming a Model e certified dealer now, there will be no opportunity of becoming one until 2027. This first stage of Model e evolution will be in effect from January 1st, 2024 through December 31st, 2026. The decision the dealership makes now will be in effect through 2026 and dealers cannot change their Model e certification status until January 1st, 2027. All dealers will continue to be able to sell EVs until January 1st, 2024 when the new Model e rules begin. (More at above url)
Wasn't Marco one of the guys always yelling most loudly about states rights... 'States' rights' advocate Marco Rubio announces co-sponsorship of Lindsey Graham's federal abortion ban https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/marco-rubio-cosponsor-abortion-ban/