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I support your agenda to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and clean
our air.

The most promising way to reach this goal is to give consumers the
choice to buy Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEVs), such as these
offerings from independent companies AC Propulsion E-Box, Tesla
Roadster and the Phoenix Motors BEV sport utility truck.

Reducing the number of ZEVs required of major automakers by 90%,
settling for only 2,500 from 2012-2014, would be detrimental to
Californians. Not only would it ignore the advances in battery
technology, but the exponential growth in consumer interest, no
demand, for oil independent non-polluting ZEVs, primarily Battery
Electric Vehicles (BEVs).

I ask you chairwoman Nichols and all the CARB board members, to 
1. Require the full 25,000 ZEVs that automakers had promised for
2012-2014, and
2. Create a separate requirement for plug-in hybrids that lets
them replace the dirtiest vehicles in CARB's regulations, rather
than the cleanest ZEVs.

Choice for consumers means cleaner air for everyone.

Thank you,

Stanton Ireland