California and the world are facing a climate crisis that is
worsening at a dramatic pace. As part of responding to this
crisis, CARB needs to move forward the date by which all vehicles
sold in California must be clean vehicles from 2035 to 2030.
It must also set interim goals for vehicle sales between now
and 2030 to assure that we reach net zero green house gas emissions
by 2045. It is critical that the transition to clean vehicles
in California be equitable. That means making sure that poor
communities and communities of color have necessary charging
infrastructure, that community members have access to significant
financial incentives to help them purchase new and used EV's and
that members also have easy access to shared EV's. To achieve
climate goals, it is imperative that the materials from which EV's
are made and their construction be clean. In the past, dirty mining
practices have done terrible damage to the health of adjacent
communities and to ecological systems around the world. CARB must
develop rules to assure that the materials needed to build EV's are
responsibly sourced and that there are recycling programs that
allow these materials to be successfully reused. One final
point: gas burning vehicles that are sold between now and 2030 must
have fuel efficiency standards that increase by 7% or more per
year. This is critical because the useful life of these gas
burning vehicles is likely to be twenty years or more and
California cannot meet its 2045 net zero goal unless they are
extremely efficient. Thank-you for this opportunity to
comment.
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