First Name | Rod |
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Last Name | Miller |
Email Address | thubten@directcon.net |
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Subject | Please require 100% battery power vehicles |
Comment | The social and environmental problems being addressed through this regulation could be eliminated with 100% battery powered electric vehicles. The economic system associated with automobiles without regulation produces externalities such as, climate change, PM pollution, national security problems and smog. Requiring that a portion of the market is 100% ZEV begins the change to a personal transportation market without these externalities. If CARB had not removed the requirement for 100% ZEV then we would have been in a position now where 100% ZEV technology is more advanced and more thoroughly adopted in the marketplace. The acceptance of hybrids had nothing to do with CARB. Please don't make the same mistake twice. Require a portion of the market be 100% ZEV. Once these vehicles are on the market they can be subsidized by assessing a fee on diesel and gasoline engines that are below average efficiency. Battery powered vehicles are the best automobiles at storing electrons. They are more efficient than hydrogen powered vehicles. A 100% battery powered vehicle can be powered by photovoltaic panels. This scenario should the highest priority for CARB because most externalities are eliminated through this type of transportation. An interim goal for CARB could be to require plug-in hybrids. Battery technology is advanced enough to support 100% ZEVs. This is a fact that your rulemaking record should assert. If you do not assert this fact then you are not in compliance with the authorizing statute. If there was 100% electric vehicles available with a range of 60 miles readily available then I would buy it as a commuter vehicle. This is a prudent purchase for a consumer because they could commute even in an oil crisis because of solar panels. Please require 100% battery power vehicles for standard transportation needs in your ZEV rules. Rod Miller 6170 Oak Ridge Circle El Dorado, CA 95623 530-295-1695 |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2008-03-09 12:19:50 |
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