Roger, you comment has some validity but, I am still jealous, of those who the manufacturers have elected to make available all the alternative vehicles, and refuse to sell in my state at all..
*Dennis Lee Miles * *Director **E.V.T.I. Inc.* *E-Mail:* *[email protected]* <[email protected]> *Phone #* *(863) 944-9913* Dade City, Florida 33523 USA On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Roger Stockton via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Rick Beebe wrote: > > > There's compliance and then there's compliance. There are, I believe, 7 > > states other than California that have ZEV mandates as well. I was able > > to get a Smart ED because I live in one of them. But I can't get a Honda > > FIT or Spark EV or Fiat 500e because those are California only. I > > presume Honda, Chevy and Fiat are buying ZEV credits to avoid having to > > make cars for us smaller states. > > I think it would be incorrect to label the Smart ED as a compliance car, > given that it is available here in Canada, well beyond the reach of CARB or > other ZEV mandates ;^> > > My take on the "compliance" label is that any vehicle that is exclusively > available in regions with a ZEV mandate is a compliance car in that it is > (at least at this time) fairly clearly provided by the manufacturer only as > a means of complying with a ZEV mandate. > > As soon as the vehicle is offered anywhere that the manufacturer is not > required to comply with a ZEV mandate, it is no longer a compliance car > since the manufacturer is *voluntarily* making it available. > > Cheers, > > Roger. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140612/dedd428e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
