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As a volunteer member of CalCars and CEO of ElectraDrive, I urge
CARB to provide every available stimulus to the market adoption of
plug-in vehicles.  These vehicles contain an onboard energy store,
such as a battery pack or ultracapacitor, that will not by itself
contribute to atmospheric pollution.  The electricity used to
replenish this energy store can be provided largely from baseload
generation, which is already scheduled for off-peak delivery, and
which is also much easier to regulate (through your colleagues at
the CPUC) than millions of small, mobile sources.

The most effective regulation would be one where plug-in vehicles
are promoted at the expense of the most polluting vehicles on the
road.  It would not be necessary to make a distinction between
pure electric vehicles, extended-range electric vehicles
containing a small heat engine of some kind, or blended plug-in
hybrid vehicles, because all plug-in vehicles contribute to the
same goal of reduced automotive pollution.

Further, the technologies being developed for plug-in vehicles are
becoming sufficiently adaptable to also be incorporated into the
most egregious polluters already on our roads, allowing them to be
reclaimed as clean vehicles, and thereby avoiding the resource
costs associated with junking old vehicles and manufacturing new
ones.