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AB 32 Requires reducing GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 - a
reduction of about 25 percent,

Governor’s executive order S-3-05 (2005)requires an 80 percent
reduction below 1990 levels by 2050.

California must go from 480 mmT CO2e today to 80mmT CO2e in 38
years.

A recent study from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab reports that in
order to meet with the 33% Renewable Portfolio Standard target, 75
% of all vehicles in California must be 100% electrified by 2050.

There were 35 million registered vehicles in California in 2010.
The overall median age for automobiles was 10 years, a significant
increase over 1990 when the median age of vehicles in operation in
the US was 6.5 years.

This relatively high age of automobiles in the US might be
explained by unaffordable prices for comparable new replacement
vehicles.

Even the current Federal Tax Deductible of $7,500 and $2,500
rebates from the State of California for brand new electric cars,
there were only 1,558 electric and hybrid vehicles in California in
2011 (according to a recent publication by Southern California
Edison)

With this rate of slow adoption and the high cost of new electric
cars, it would not be possible to achieve the targeted of 30
million new electric cars on the road in 38 years, which represents
75% of all vehicles in California in 2050.

This goal can be achieved if we include the existing old vehicles
which have been converted into electric.

There are more than 1,000 converted electric vehicles in
California. The process is relative simple which use the existing
durable chassis and durable car body to replace the internal
combustion engine, radiator, water pump, fuel pump, gas tank and
other components with an electric motor, a controller and a battery
pack. 

The reason there is a modest number of converted electric cars on
the road is due to the fact that there is no federal or state
support and incentive to subsidize the cost of doing an electric
vehicle conversion. An average cost of converting an internal
combustion engine car into 100% electric is about $10,000- $15,000
depending on the types of battery pack system.

On behalf of the Cleantech Institute, I hereby request the CARB to
subsidize the cost the electric vehicle conversion as a part of the
Amended to the California Zero Emission Vehicle Regulation.