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California and Québec’s ZEV mandates description

May, 2019

Summary

Navius Research has summarized the Zero Emission Vehicle standard regulations implemented in the state of California and the province of Québec. The summary explains compliance requirements including credit generation mechanisms, application of the policy on automakers, monitoring and enforcement, and penal provisions. A comparison is made between the two policies.

Highlights:

  • California introduced its first iteration of the ZEV mandate in the early 1990’s but the regulation did not take effect until 2005.
  • As of May 2019, Québec was the only jurisdiction outside of the United States to have implemented its own Zero Emission Vehicle standard.
  • The policies are designed to increase zero emission vehicle availability, choice and sales in both jurisdictions
  • Both policies use a credit system to define compliance with their policies. The production of credits is driven by ZEV sales, but there isn’t a one-to-one ratio between sales and credit generation. Therefore, actual ZEV sales may differ somewhat from the policies’ ZEV targets.
  • Both policies place heavy emphasis on vehicle range with long range vehicles earning up to four times more credits than a vehicle with a minimum credit-generating zero emission range of about 80 km. Actual ZEV sales in a given year will be lower than the ZEV target if most sales are long-range ZEVs because of the credit generation system.

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