(The Center Square) – Hitting the next ambitious goal to make North Carolinians convert from combustion engine vehicles to zero-emission will require a monthly average better than the yearly norm of the past five years.
Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday touted the state hitting a goal from a 2018 executive order in which he aimed for 80,000 zero-emission vehicles registered in the state by 2025. In a release, he said the latest numbers available through November showed that mark has been hit two years early.
His executive order in January 2022, however, put a goal of 1.25 million registered by 2030. With 81 months to go and 1.17 million needed, the state will need to average adding more than 14,400 per month.
In the most recent five years, from November 2018 to this past, the annual average is about 13,000.
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