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The number of ZEVs proposed in your February staff report is far
too low. You've already delayed clean air for a decade.  How much
longer must our lungs wait?  Between 1996 and 2002, 5600 ZEVs were
put on the roads of California and the other adopting states. 
Instead of building upon this success, CARB allowed most of these
vehicles to be removed from service.  Now you propose to allow 840
vehicles a year to suffice from 2012-2014, a number that would not
even approach what you have previously shown to be possible. 
Startups alone could sell 840 ZEVs a year; surely the major
automakers can do better.  I ask that:
(1) the full 25,000 per year be pure ZEVs;
(2) PHEVs, which the automakers will build anyway, not reduce pure
ZEVs;
(3) you implement a level playing field between all types of ZEVs
instead of trying to pick winners.
With California's larger population, greater consumer awareness,
better technology, and a more pressing need, anything less would
be a pittance.