a zero-emission vehicle is defined as battery electric, fuel-cell, or plug-in hybrid electric

Yes, they’re still counting gasoline-powered hybrids as zero-emissions. Avoiding opportunities for that kind of stupidity is one reason why it’d be better to simply have a carbon tax that applies to everything. If CATL comes through with its low-cost sodium-ion batteries next year, then a relatively modest tax — such as the one we recently had — might even be enough to let EVs take over most of the market. Of course they might be slowed down a little by the cult-like devotion to putting GAS in your TRUCK as some kind of ritual expression of Conservative identity.

As soon as they got caught on the hypocrisy of the “arsonist” argument, since they are willing to defend people defying fire bans, they put another quarter into the bullshit reason gumball machine for their latest new excuse.