SB 134 STUDY ELECTRIC VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT

Sen Pete Campos

Actions: [2] SCC/STBTC/SFC-SCC

Scheduled: Not Scheduled

 Senate Bill 134 (SB 134) appropriates five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to the Department of Transportation to study electric vehicle development, including charging stations at rest areas throughout the state. 

 Senate Bill 134 (SB 134) appropriates five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) from the General Fund (GF) to the Department of Transportation for expenditure in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 to study electric vehicle development, including charging stations at rest areas throughout the state.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2025 reverts to the GF. 

 On July 3, 2023, Governor Lujan Grisham announced that the state would adopt Advanced Clean Cars and Advanced Clean Trucks rules to further advance New Mexico's goals of ensuring New Mexicans have access to zero-emission vehicles, like electric cars, qualified plug-in vehicles, and hydrogen trucks.
Under these rules, in 2026, car manufacturers will have to make sure 43% of the cars and light trucks they deliver to New Mexico are zero-emissions vehicles. That percentage will increase each year until 2032, when 82% of the vehicles they deliver to New Mexico will be zero-emissions.
https://www.env.nm.gov/transportation/

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  SB 134 relates to SB 136 and HB 76