North Carolina’s Proposed Advanced Clean Trucks Program

In October 2022, North Carolina’s governor signed an Executive Order tasking the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to propose an Advanced Clean Trucks Program to the Environmental Management Commission by the following May. The commission then would have to sign off on any proposal to make it enforceable. The requested rule would require van, bus and commercial truck manufacturers to sell more zero-emission vehicles in the state over time, increasing from 10-13% in 2026 to 40-75% in 2035, depending on vehicle sizes.