The nonprofit transportation decarbonization group CALSTART today released its annual report on the progress 23 states (and the District of Columbia) have made toward accelerating the adoption of zero-emission trucks, vans, and buses.
The 2025 report, known as the “ZET Ahead Dashboard” because it tracks the deployment of zero-emission trucks, adds six new states — Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Georgia and Florida — to the 17 states originally featured. It also adds a dimension to the economic development market, analyzing supplemental taxes and workforce development policies that encourage investment in clean transportation.
In an era of limited funding and increasingly complex and competing priorities, Calstart says the report provides state employees with a concise guide to starting, growing and maintaining a medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle ecosystem. Drawing on three decades of experience, CALSTART has identified the most impactful actions for countries working to decarbonize their transportation sector, using a strategy that requires not just one program or policy, but a range of complimentary deployments across a range of target areas such as: targets, planning, economic development, vehicle incentives, infrastructure, innovative policy and regulation.
“States have a newly updated tool in their toolbox when it comes to certifying zero-emission trucks and buses. Our ZET Ahead dashboard provides actionable information and much-needed guidance. In fact, the data we’re seeing this year shows that the foundation for enabling zero-emission trucking is no longer regionally clustered,” said Alyssa Berger, regional policy director at CALSTART, said in a statement: “Favorable market conditions are now spreading throughout the entire United States.” “Every state in the country — red or blue, urban or rural, big or small — can take steps today to enable the modernization of freight with zero-emission trucks tomorrow.”
