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now. e Air Quality Control Commission in April will hold hearings and vote on adopting California’s existing Advanced Clean Trucks standard for medium- and heavy-duty sales in Colorado, with required levels of new sales that ramp up beginning with the 2027 model year.

Trucking industry o cials say Colorado’s goals will be a steep challenge, as there are few alternativedrive heavy trucks on the market.

Colorado’s cold weather and steep terrain will also sap the available life from heavy truck batteries, and battery packages that can weigh 8,000 pounds replace money-making payloads for larger trucks, they say.

If electric or hydrogen-drive trucks are not widely available for the next few years, the new EV plan commits Colorado to work on programs or rebates to replace older, high-emissions trucks with newer fossil fuel models. e trucking industry says the newest vehicles emit 90% less nitrogen oxide, a key element in Colorado’s ozone violations, than current standards. e state EV plan also sets goals of converting the entire public transit eet to zero-emission vehicles no later than 2050, and retirement of all diesel or gas school buses by 2035.

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