https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/california-gov-jerry-brown-unveils-25-billion-plan-to-boost-electric-vehicles/2018/01/27/deed8cd8-039f-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html California Gov. Jerry Brown unveils $2.5 billion plan to boost electric vehicles January 27 2018
Brown unveils plan to boost electric cars Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has outlined a $2.5 billion plan to help Californians buy electric vehicles and expand a network of charging stations as part of a goal of getting 5 million zero-emission cars on the road by 2030. The ambitious proposal to transform California’s car culture comes as Brown begins his final year in office and works to set the stage for his environmental legacy to continue under his successor. The number of zero-emission cars is a significant expansion of Brown’s goal of selling 1.5 million such vehicles by 2025. It’s a nearly 15-fold increase over the 350,000 zero-emission vehicles already on California’s roads. The $2.5 billion in spending still needs legislative approval. Reaching the goal will require that 40 percent of vehicles sold in 2030 be clean, said Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, up from about 5 percent now. Brown’s plan, announced Friday, would extend subsidies to help people buy emission-free vehicles. It seeks to have 250,000 electric-vehicle charging stations and 200 hydrogen fueling stations, an increase from about 14,000 charging stations ... [© washingtonpost.com] + https://qz.com/1190936/tesla-built-the-worlds-largest-supercharger-station-in-beijing-china/ Tesla built its largest Supercharger station in China—for the third time Jan 27, 2018 If you want to assess the state of electric vehicles in the world, just look at where Tesla is building its biggest Supercharger stations. Tesla debuted in China, the world's most vibrant electric vehicle market, in 2014. Despite competing against cut-rate homegrown models and premium options (as well as a 25% import tax on ... https://electrek.co/2018/01/29/tesla-adjust-sound-system-based-on-wind-road-noise-elon-musk/ Tesla will auto adjust its sound system based on wind and road noise, says Elon Musk Jan. 29th 2018 That's a feature that is actually already available in the Model 3, one of the rare features that is in the vehicle, but not in the flagship Model S and Model X vehicles. It's a popular feature in gas-powered cars and likely less useful in electric vehicles, but there are still cabin noises in EVs due to the wheels and wind ... https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/screen-shot-2018-01-18-at-11-07-01-am-e1517260332594.jpg?quality=82&w=1500#038;strip=all&w=1079 For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
