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newsrel -- Car buyers looking for low polluting vehicles have new tool

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 14:44:35
Website makes choosing the cleanest car easy. 

Release 09-103
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 19, 2009
	  	  	
Dimitri Stanich
(916)-322-2825
www.arb.ca.gov.

Car buyers looking for low polluting vehicles have new tool

Website ranks cars by smog and greenhouse gas emissions

SACRAMENTO: The California Air Resources Board today unveiled
its revamped website, Driveclean.ca.gov, which helps consumers
choose the least polluting cars on the market.

The new website, using information collected for vehicle
certification in California, offers a practical system that ranks
vehicles according to their emission characteristics and provides
tools to compare models.

"Until now, decisions about car buying were based solely on what
functions the car needed to serve," said ARB Chairman Mary D.
Nichols. ""This new website will take the guesswork out of buying
the cleanest car and help consumers find rebates, tax breaks and
other incentives."

The ARB has made efforts recently to simplify state and federal
vehicle-emission classifications to aid car-buyers. Last year,
California adopted a regulation requiring auto manufacturers to
affix the Environmental Performance Label to showroom models
indicating the vehicle's smog and greenhouse gas emissions. The
simply illustrated graphic has two rankings, from one to ten,
that depict vehicle emissions. The higher the score, the less
polluting it is.

Driveclean.ca.gov puts these same rankings in an online format
making them practical for web research. The web site provides
information about clean car technology and guides users to
consider the emissions of the models they are evaluating.

In addition, consumers will find information on available
incentives being offered by various federal, state and local
governments, and private corporations and businesses. ARB is
preparing for its own new incentive program, the Zero-Emission
and Plug-In Hybrid Light-Duty Vehicle Rebate Project, slated to
begin the first quarter of 2010. Incentives will range between
$1,500 and $5,000 for qualifying clean technology vehicles, such
as plug-in hybrids, battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel
cell vehicles.

The Air Resources Board is a department of the California
Environmental Protection Agency. ARB's mission is to promote and
protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through
effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and
considering effects on the economy. The ARB oversees all air
pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain
health based air quality standards.

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