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While ONMC's may produce slightly higher portions of greenhouse
gases per unit, they do not have the same life expectancy or the
same mileage expectancy as conventional vehicles.
Mobile sources are inclusive of much more than just ONMC's, in fact
ONMC's are the smaller portion of Mobile sources, yet you are
crediting them with the higher proportional value. Portable
construction equipment has longer run times in localized areas
leading to more localized health issues than ONMC's which are here
and gone in a short period of time leaving behind much less
residue. When you look at health issues such as Asthma or
Respiratory Disease, they are generally viewed from a regional
source. ONMC's travel over greater areas which does not cause
localized concentrations. Therefore your use of the data is skewed.
It is possible to produce cleaner fuels, and vehicles that are more
efficient without forcing people to go to electric vehicles which
are not as reliable or as economically viable as stated or
promoted.

Yes, of course there would be a revenue gain for the state as
electricity is more costly then gasoline, therefore more taxes to
be collected and of course this is the real goal. With no cost to
school districts which do not use ONMC's. However; the cost to the
public would be far greater than the few partly dollars forecast by
whatever number you picked out of the air. ( Perhaps you should try
it first and see what the real cost is). (in the loss of jobs,
shops, parts and services. Then in the replacement cost compared to
those now. Especially if delivery vehicles are also electric and
have to stop every couple hundred miles and charge for 12 hours.
Lets try to look at the whole picture here.  Then there's the costs
of permits and installation of charging systems at homes etc. Short
sightedness does not equate to less or no cost. Right now because
of the weather electric vehicles all over the country are failing.
People are waiting 16 hours or more to try and charge their
vehicles. To say the cost will balance out in ten years is just
being naive as most electric vehicle only last ten years; and
that's if they are not involved in any kind of minor accident. 

Again there is no Infrastructure for electric vehicles of any kind
in California. We cannot support the needs we currently have for
electricity as it is. 
How discriminatory is it to force electric vehicles; ONMC's on the
public and let the  CHP BE EXEMPT  and I'm sure any other law
enforcement agency that asks. 
The cost to life savings is Paltry. To GUESS that 42 lives might be
saved at the cost of billions of dollars and the freedom of
millions of legal citizens is a poor excuse for trampling on
peoples constitutional rights and disenfranchising the peoples of
California.