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I am curious how hospitals and other big facilities will handle this that currently use diesel generators as a backup. Changing that to solar/batteries to power a large facility is a significant investment that I am having a difficult time picturing hospitals and other big facilities jumping on board. What are their plans for this? Or will the fuel always be available and affordable, just not new fossil fuel vehicles?

When a majority of fossil fuel vehicles are gone, what happens to the price of diesel? Will there be exemptions for bio-diesel or other variants?

Tangent:

Each time I visit New York City, how incomprehensibly many cars there are flowing through this alleged pedestrian mecca at any time is striking.

As many cars as there are, there are far, far more people. There's a lot of cars, but not 8.4 million of them.

Of those cars, a fair few are mass transit: taxis and ride-sharing. NYC is a pedestrian mecca, but it's still not perfect, and so cars are still the best way to get medium distances. You walk shorter distances, and the subway is faster for long ones, but for that common middle range, a car is going to be faster and easier. It's just increasingly rare for you to own one.

A lot of the remaining cars are commuters, who would rather pay a ton of money move about with the Great Unwashed. It's slower, too, because the bridges and tunnels are jammed. But they own cars in the burbs, and the alternative still involves driving to the mass transit station, so they might as well keep going.

Electric cars really don't change that one way or the other.

We already buy cars in VT and else where because of better deals and taxes...

We also lose electricity completely about 3-5 days a year, so fxxx that noise!

Cool so what happens when the power goes out?
The gas stations stop being able to pump gas.
The same thing that happens to anyone who doesn't have a landline.
LOL I have neither landline nor cellular where I live in NYS.

So I have to DRIVE to the nearest town 10 miles away when power goes out to check on the outage online.

So we will force the poor ones to keep their old, low mpg, gas guzzling cars for even longer.

This is shortsighted regulation. If it does not address the elephant in the room (super high prices of EVs), then it will simply not work.

Just because you can legislate, it does not mean that you can prohibit people being poor.