CALSTART has rolled out the 2025 edition of its ZET Ahead Dashboard, an interactive platform utilized by policymakers, investors, and industry stakeholders, that visualizes progress across 23 states and Washington, D.C. in accelerating zero-emission van, truck, and bus adoption.
This year's update expands coverage with detailed profiles for six additional states—Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Georgia, and Florida—bringing new insights into regional zero-emission vehicle progress. The update also provides refreshed data for the 17 states previously featured and introduces a new Economic Development dimension that examines how tax incentives and workforce policies are supporting clean transportation investment.
CALSTART's ZET Ahead Dashboard tracks progress in 23 states and the District of Columbia toward adopting zero-emission vans, trucks, and buses.CALSTART
The new Economic Development feature spotlights how state financing, incentives, and workforce programs strengthen clean transportation markets. As zero-emission technologies expand, states investing in these areas stand to gain local manufacturing and infrastructure jobs.
Although medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, such as vans, trucks, and buses, account for less than 5% of vehicles on U.S. roads, they produce a disproportionate share of greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution. Their electrification offers opportunities for emission reductions and cleaner air, especially in cities.
"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," said Alissa Burger, regional policy director at CALSTART. "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."
