Some detail/expanding on John's points ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F#California_Air_Resources_Board In 2003, the CARB, headed by Democrat Alan Lloyd, finally caved to industry pressure and drastically scaled back the ZEV mandate after defending the regulation for more than 12 years. While championing CARB's efforts on behalf of California's with its 1990 mandate (and other regulations over the years), the film suggests Lloyd may have had a conflict of interest as the director of the California Fuel Cell Partnership. The ZEV change allowed a marginal amount of hydrogen fuel cell cars to be produced in the future versus the immediate continued growth of its electric car requirement. Footage shot in the meetings showed Lloyd shutting down battery electric car proponents while giving the car makers all the time they wanted to make their points.
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/zevprog/zevprog.htm Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Program ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Air_Resources_Board#California_zero-emissions_vehicle The first definition has its origin in the California ZEV rule, adopted as part of the 1990 Low-Emission Vehicle (LEV I) Program mandated by CARB.[10][11] The ZEV regulation has evolved and been modified several times since 1990, and several new partial or low-emission categories were created and defined ... CA Gov Pete Wilson paid-off by Big Oil and Automakers took the teeth out of the ZEV mandate by changing the board members ... [dated] http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Electric-Car-Push-Angers-Governors-Pete-Wilson-3032000.php May 23, 1995 ... Wilson has been under pressure in California, too, to abandon the mandate, even though Congress has ordered that the state must meet tough new Clean Air Act standards by 2010. ... ... [dated] http://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0613/13032.html/%28page%29/2 Wilson Campaign Woes Fueled by Electric-Car Flap [1995/06/13] This page uses my news item work from 1995 (* see the '[As POSTed ...' , that is my work), read the second 'con-EV' portion: [dated] http://www.acterra.org/ev/archive/Three_views.html Three Different views on the Same CARB Meeting [1995/10/11] [dated] http://www.autonews.com/article/19951218/ANA/512180727/carb-chief:no-pressure-from-calif.-governor CARB CHIEF: NO PRESSURE FROM CALIF. GOVERNOR December 18, 1995 ... the board is tinkering with the mandate. But the board's chairman, John ... Dunlap's 'conspiracy theory' denial came Thursday, Dec. 14, as his staff requested a week's delay to modify the mandate; board staff members said they needed more time to review the 100-plus proposed modifications submitted by the public in response to the three alternative concepts that the staff unveiled Dec. 6 ... [dated, ... my work back in 1996 ...] http://www.acterra.org/ev/archive/carb_3_28_96pf.html CARB update, March 28 1996 ... In a decision with broad impacts for America's fledgling electric car industry, state air officials voted Friday to pull the plug on a series of landmark rules that would have forced carmakers to begin selling thousands of electric vehicles in California by 1998. With an 11-0 vote, the state Air Resources Board chose instead to allow automakers to voluntarily sell electric cars in the next seven years based on market demand ... [dated] The Approaching Showdown over California's Zero ... www.plugincars.com/californias-zev-mandate-ahead-car-buying... by Jim Motavalli - Apr 19, 2013 - California wants automakers to fall into line and agree to comply with its ... junked by a Republican Governor named Pete Wilson by replacing the chair of CARB. Some say He was paid off by Big Auto working with Big Oil. And ... The following is the above news piece but in full, but it seems to have been white-washed since it's initial release summary (above) told of Gov. Wilson taking Oil money ... http://www.plugincars.com/californias-zev-mandate-ahead-car-buying-consumers-127028.html The Approaching Showdown over California's Zero Emissions Mandate By Jim Motavalli · April 19, 2013 [image http://www.plugincars.com/sites/default/files/laguna%20beach.jpg Leaf EV charging in Laguna Beach, CA ] Charging a row of EVs in Laguna Beach, California. The state definitely leads the nation in public charging infrastructure. (Flickr/LukeGordon1) It’s taking on the aspects of a showdown. California wants automakers to fall into line and agree to comply with its Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) plan. But some carmakers don’t see that consumers are going to want them—they see the expensive cars they build at great expense building up on dealer lots. And now California Air Resources Board head Mary Nichols is ramping up the confrontation. “Talk about shooting yourselves in the foot, or maybe I could say, tripping over your own halo,” she said about the automakers’ appeal at a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) conference. “We don't have time to delay the infusion of these technologies.” More Than a Million Cars? The state plan sees a smooth transition to 1.4 million battery electric and plug-in hybrids on state roads by 2025. Some 500,000 of them would be either battery cars or fuel-cell vehicles. It’s hoped that in 12 years, one in seven cars sold, 15.4 percent, will use plugs. There's some evidence to justify the automakers’ position, solely based on battery car sales so far. Yes, California has by far the most robust network for public charging and healthy EV sales. Currently, one in 40 sales there are plug ins. But the state mandate applies to car companies, not to consumers, and there would have to be a massive change in attitude to get to one in seven sales. Consumers in the Driver's Seat I talked to Gloria Bergquist, a spokesperson for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM), and she was blunt: “Automakers have invested billions of dollars in new powertrains, including zero emission vehicles like plug-in hybrids, fully electric vehicles and hydrogen cars, so automakers have a huge stake in their success in the marketplace. The reality is that consumers are in the driver's seat when it comes to putting ZEVs on California roads. While automakers have invested heavily in these technologies and are working hard to sell them, the ZEV mandate carries no requirement that consumers buy them. So this is a ‘Field of Dreams’ mandate: if we build the cars, the customers will come and buy them. We hope so, but if not, the state will need to revisit the mandate.” To be fair, California is not expecting the cars to sell themselves. The state has a “ZEV Action Plan” released in February. By 2020, it assumes all of this: The state’s ZEV infrastructure will be able to support up to one million vehicles. The costs of ZEVs will be competitive with conventional combustion vehicles. ZEVs will be accessible to mainstream consumers. There will be widespread use of ZEVs for public transportation and freight transportation. The State Steps Up The state is putting its money where its mouth is—“10 percent of state departments’ light-duty fleet purchases must be ZEVs, climbing to 25 percent of light duty purchases by 2020.” The state realizes that, in its own words, “Many consumers are unaware that ZEVs are available for purchase or lease,” and many don’t fully understand the benefits—such as the free use of High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes. Expanding consumer awareness and demand is goal #2 of the state plan, as well it should be. Bergquist points to Nichols’ statement that EV sales are up “five times” from what they were a year ago. But she wants to put that in context—last year, there were 50,000 plug-in and battery car sales nationwide, up from 10,000 in 2011. In March, 4,553 were sold. The numbers are not big. California is being very proactive about EVs, and that’s a good thing. My worry is solely that the ramp up required by the mandates is too optimistic for what consumers will actually want to do. There’s no question that the EV revolution is underway. But it’s the pace of it that’s still in question. My hope, of course, is that EV acceptance will outpace the mandate and there will be an EV in nearly every driveway by 2025. [ © plugincars.com] % It comes down to CARB is easily manipulated, so each Californian will have to give their view to CARB on this change. Then, all of the plugin community will have to wait and ride this roller-coaster of change out to see how it ends-up % {brucedp.150m.com} - On Thu, Apr 10, 2014, at 09:11 PM, John Schaefer wrote: > Unfortunately the ARB has a history consistent with this ruling. Remember > it > was Alan LLoyd as chair who trashed the EV mandate, at the urging of ICE > interests. He denies it, of course, but retired with nice support for his > non-profit. > > Hopefully Tesla can survive better than all the companies that died with > the mandate. - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
