California ‘changed the world’ with move to phase out diesel trucks: What happens next?

IN A MOVE that will transform California’s economy and end diesel’s decades-long dominance in goods movement, the Air Resources Board on April 28 unanimously approved an ambitious, contentious mandate to shift big rigs and other trucks to zero-emissions. 

California’s newest effort to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles is arguably one of the most meaningful steps the state has ever taken to clean up its severe smog and toxic diesel exhaust, reduce greenhouse gases and wean itself off fossil fuels.