Tuesday 31 January 2012

California Emissions Rules could Boost Electric Cars.

The California Air Resources Board, or CARB, approved new policies for vehicles that is said will boost demand for electric-vehicle technology while decreasing pollution and the adverse effects of cars and trucks on public health.

The most striking detail of the plan is a change to the Zero Emissions Vehicle program that requires battery, fuel cell, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to account for up to 15% of the state’s new-vehicle sales by 2025 (so we'll be waiting at least a decade then!!) . The board said the program will result in more than one million of these “green” vehicles being sold in California from 2018 to 2025.

The rule could be a big boost for the electric-car industry, which has suffered of late from a lack of consumer demand.

now comes the cheesey quote - “California is putting the pedal to the metal on electric cars and healthier air by strengthening its clean-car standards,” attributed to David Friedman, deputy director of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Clean Vehicles program.

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