EVA
Comments for the CA ACCII review
Thank you Chair Randolf and the Board for the
opportunity comment today. I am Guy Hall, Policy Lead for the
Electric Vehicle Association.
The EVA has thousands or members participating in over
100 chapters across the US with many of them in
California.
While we would like to see much more aggressive interim
goals, we support CARB’s 100% goal of clean vehicle
adoption.
We are concerned however, that California will not be
able to achieve high levels of adoption without including all
communities. Over a quarter our families reside in apartments
and condos, without access to charging at their home.
Even as EVs come down in price and substantial
individual incentives are provided, lack of MUD home charging
infrastructure in underserved communities is an impediment that
locks out EV adoption by most of these residents.
The EVA holds hundreds of EV showcases and test drive
events each year. We hear consistently from apartment
residents that as much as they would like to get an EV with all the
economic, reliability and environmental benefits, the lack of home
charging is a deal breaker.
This is what we hear again and again. This message
is re-enforced in discussions with auto sales reps who know how
hard it is to sell an EV (new or used) to an apartment resident
without home charging.
This is not part of the Advanced Clean Cars II
rules.
To repeat, this is not part of the Advanced Clean Cars
II rules, but it is a critical parallel multiyear effort necessary
for the ACC2 to successfully lead us to 100% adoption.
Retrofitting is crazy expensive, so we urge the first immediate
step must be for CARB to aggressively support building code changes
to stop creating new MFH developments that inhibit ACC2’s
targets.
Thank you to the staff in developing ACCI and for the
opportunity to speak.