First Name | bryan |
---|---|
Last Name | swansburg |
Email Address | bryantheresa@canada.com |
Affiliation | |
Subject | Zero Emission Vehicles |
Comment | Like it or not your organization is THE MOST IMPORTANT IN THE WORLD! Canada's 30 million people is "too small a market" to legislate unilateral standards. But somehow California - with about the same number of people - has managed to implement it's own environmental standards for the past 20 years or so. The 1980's ZEV rules gave the rest of the world (eg, me) some hope that there might be an alternative to my smokey, polluting and expensive petroleum powered car. The withdrawal of those requirements put the entire system back 20 years. Now GM is talking about 40 mile range, Toyota's plug in will go 8 miles. Big advances after the EV1 design, huh? You can pass the rules to make the big US manufactures produce the cars for California that they will have to try to sell elsewhere to recoup their costs - that will beat the rest of the world and allow US engineers to design German automobiles & save the US economy - no big deal, right? Or you can let Toyota import piles of cars to the US. |
Attachment | |
Original File Name | |
Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2008-03-14 18:02:11 |
If you have any questions or comments please contact Clerk of the Board at (916) 322-5594.