California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 1 - Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Devices › Article 2 - Approval of Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Devices (New Vehicles) › Section 1962.2 - Zero-Emission Vehicle Standards for 2018 Through 2025 Model Year Passenger Cars, Light-Duty Trucks, and Medium-Duty Vehicles

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
ZEV Emission Standard
.
				  The Executive Officer shall certify new 2018 through 2025 model year passenger
				  cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty vehicles as ZEVs, vehicles that
				  produce zero exhaust emissions of any criteria pollutant (or precursor
				  pollutant) or greenhouse gas, excluding emissions from air conditioning
				  systems, under any possible operational modes or conditions. Model years 2026
				  and subsequent passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty vehicles are
				  certified under section
				  1962.4.
(b)
Percentage ZEV
				  Requirements
.
(1)
General ZEV
				  Credit Percentage Requirement
.
(A)
Basic Requirement
. The minimum ZEV credit percentage
				  requirement for each manufacturer is listed in the table below as the
				  percentage of the PCs and LDTs, produced by the manufacturer and delivered for
				  sale in California that must be ZEVs, subject to the conditions in this
				  subdivision
				  1962.2(b). The
				  ZEV requirement will be based on the annual NMOG production report for the
				  appropriate model year.
Model Year
Credit Percentage
							 Requirement
2018
4.5%
2019
7.0%
2020
9.5%
2021
12.0%
2022
14.5%
2023
17.0%
2024
19.5%
2025
22.0%
(B)
Calculating the Number of Vehicles to Which the Percentage ZEV
				  Requirement is Applied
. For 2018 through 2025 model years, a
				  manufacturer's production volume for the given model year will be based on the
				  three-year average of the manufacturer's volume of PCs and LDTs, produced and
				  delivered for sale in California in the prior second, third, and fourth model
				  year [for example, 2019 model year ZEV requirements will be based on California
				  production volume average of PCs and LDTs for the 2015 to 2017 model years].
				  This production averaging is used to determine ZEV requirements only, and has
				  no effect on a manufacturer's size determination (eg. three-year average
				  calculation method). In applying the ZEV requirement, a PC or LDT, that is
				  produced by one manufacturer (e.g., Manufacturer A), but is marketed in
				  California by another manufacturer (e.g., Manufacturer B) under the other
				  manufacturer's (Manufacturer B) nameplate, shall be treated as having been
				  produced by the marketing manufacturer (i.e., Manufacturer B).
1. [Reserved]
2. [Reserved]
3. A manufacturer may apply to the Executive
				  Officer to be permitted to base its ZEV obligation on the number of PCs and
				  LDTs, produced by the manufacturer and delivered for sale in California that
				  same model year (ie, same model-year calculation method) as an alternative to
				  the three-year averaging of prior year production described above, for up to
				  two model years, total, between model year 2018 through 2025 model years. For
				  the same model-year calculation method to be allowed, a manufacturer's
				  application to the Executive Officer must show that their volume of PCs and
				  LDTs produced and delivered for sale in California has decreased by at least 30
				  percent from the previous year due to circumstances that were unforeseeable and
				  beyond their control.
(C)
				  [Reserved]
(D)
Exclusion of
				  ZEVs in Determining a Manufacturer's Sales Volume
. In calculating a
				  manufacturer's applicable sales, using either method described in subdivision
				  1962.2(b)(1)(B),
				  a manufacturer shall exclude the number of NEVs produced and delivered for sale
				  in California by the manufacturer itself, or by a subsidiary in which the
				  manufacturer has more than 33.4% percent ownership
				  interest.