The transportation decarbonization nonprofit group CALSTART today released its annual report on the progress that 23 states (and the District of Columbia) have made toward accelerating the adoption of zero-emission vans, trucks, and buses.
Known as the “ZET Ahead Dashboard” because it tracks the deployment of Zero-Emission Trucks, the 2025 report adds six new states—Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Georgia, and Florida—to the 17 originally featured. It also adds an Economic Development market dimension, analyzing complementary tax and workforce development policies that encourage clean transportation investment.
In an era of constrained funding and increasingly complex and competing priorities, CALSTART says the report provides state staff with a succinct playbook for initiating, growing, and sustaining an ecosystem for zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Based on three decades of experience, CALSTART has identified the most impactful actions for states working to decarbonize their transport sector, using a strategy that requires not just one program or one policy, but rather a suite of complimentary deployments across a range of targeted areas such as: Targets, Planning, Economic Development, Vehicles Incentives, Infrastructure, Innovative Policy, and Regulations.
“States have a newly updated tool in their toolbox when it comes to zero-emission truck and bus adoption. Our ZET Ahead dashboard provides actionable information and much-needed guidance. In fact, the data we’re seeing this year make clear that the groundwork to enable zero-emission trucking is no longer regionally clustered. And favorable market conditions are now spreading out across the entire United States,” Alissa Burger, Regional Policy Director at CALSTART, said in a release. “Every state in the country — red or blue, urban or rural, big or small — can take steps today to enable freight modernization with zero-emission trucks tomorrow.”
