MAINE MONITOR • November 15, 2024
The Maine Climate Council has just finished updating the state’s climate action plan, as required by law, and a key strategy in the draft plan is to put 150,000 electric vehicles on Maine roads by 2030. Despite good intentions, this seems doomed to fail. My dive into the latest statistics and the shifting electric vehicle markets suggests that state climate planners once again put aspirations ahead of reality. A closer look at how the market has reacted since 2020, when Maine first issued its climate action plan, indicates that the latest targets are not only unrealistic, but might not have their intended climate impact.