Small off-road engine cutoff

Definition

The emission standard that stops new gas crew equipment being sold, not run.

Why It Matters

California set the exhaust and evaporative standard for new small off-road engines at zero from the 2024 model year, which is a sale ban written as a number: an engine nobody can certify is an engine nobody can sell new. Existing equipment may still be run and resold used, so the rule does not bite on the day it lands, it bites at replacement. Price the fleet on what replacing it costs and not on what it would fetch. Read the exception too, because generators and larger pressure washers were held back to 2028, so the blower on the trailer is covered and the generator beside it is not.