The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Auto Alliance) has sent letters to the governors of the nine states following California’s Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate encouraging them to also follow California’s lead in adopting measures that can help increase sales, including investing in infrastructure, developing consumer incentives and committing to buy ZEVs for state and local government fleets.
In 2017, ZEVs represented 1.15 percent of total sales nationwide, or about 190,000 vehicles out of 17.1 million new vehicles sold. By 2025, under the California mandate, sales of ZEVs are required to be 15.4 percent of total sales.
The states are Connecticut,