I want to disagree with you on the timeline issue, but I think 14 years was probably chosen for it not to be too economically disruptive. I live both in NYC pa

I want to disagree with you on the timeline issue, but I think 14 years was probably chosen for it not to be too economically disruptive. I live both in NYC part of the time and in Vancouver part of the time and I see a lot more hybrid and totally electric vehicles in Vancouver, despite the fact it should be theoretically easier in NYC due to the density. There's a large environmental push on the pacific northwest, but there are practical reasons people choose electric cars here- namely that there are taxes coming on non-electric cars soon. Driving a gas car will cost you $1000 a year soon, and then that rate will go up. You can only avoid that tax with a hybrid or fully electric car. Other incentives and taxes are coming that only allow plug-in-electric and fully electric cars. For example they allow electric and PEVs to use the HOV lanes on the highway, and there's rumor of possible parking and other benefits. Back to the timeline... the problem right now is how little plug-in infrastructure NYC and NYS have. To pull off electric vehicles, you need plug-in stations everywhere. You want people to be able to charge their vehicles easily and nearly everywhere. That's because charging time for cars is significantly slower than gassing up, and electric cars typically have shorter range than gas, so you need to make it convenient to charge up in more places in order to offset the inconvenience of time. It's also going to be disruptive to various NYS industry, such as the gas stations, which will see a decline in their gasoline business and need money and time to switch over to offering electric charging. 14 years is a very long time, but I suspect if they had said ten years, people would have revolted at the inconvenience/impossibility of retrofitting or building so much electric infrastructure. It shouldn't take this long, but I think this is the best they could have done politically.