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newsrel -- ARB workshop signals start of process to envision car of the future

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 17:04:17
Tuesday, March 2, ARB will hold a workshop in El Monte to discuss
the future designs of automobiles. Release 10-22
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March 1, 2010 	
	
	
Stanley Young
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John Swanton
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ARB workshop signals start of process to envision car of the
future

New approach combines tailpipe and greenhouse gas emissions,
draws on wide range of technologies, studies 

EL MONTE, Calif.—A workshop to be held in the California Air
Resources Board’s El Monte office on March 2, is designed to kick
off a pioneering effort to craft standards to help develop the
next generation of cleaner cars.  

"California takes its responsibility to lead in setting
environmental standards for motor vehicles very seriously,” said
ARB Chairman Mary D. Nichols. “The time has come to move beyond
dealing separately with the pollutants we have regulated
successfully and the recent focus on those that are building up
in the atmosphere. We need to look out more than a few years and
envision the car of the future. Where better for engineers to
dream about the car of the future than the state that gave us the
microchip, Google and now the Tesla?”

The new approach will link formerly separate standards to reduce
toxic tailpipe emissions and greenhouse gas emissions into a
single regulatory framework. The standards were formerly known as
“LEV III” (for the third stage of the Low Emission Vehicle
standards) and “Pavley II” (for the second, post-2016 stage of
California’s pioneering greenhouse gas standard, established
under AB 1493, the 2002 law authored by California state senator
Fran Pavley).  Also encompassed in the new approach are standards
for zero emission vehicles, known as the ZEV regulations.

“Our goal is to guide the development of even cleaner, ultra-low
carbon cars that deliver performance and utility,” said Tom
Cackette, the executive officer who oversees ARB’s motor vehicle
programs. “This will reduce fuel costs for consumers, and help
move California, and the nation, away from its dependence on
petroleum and toward greater energy security.”

The workshop is designed to present the widest range of
technological and design options that manufacturers are currently
working on to reduce emissions and increase fuel efficiency.

These include improvements in hybrid and plug-in hybrid
vehicles, full battery-electric vehicles, the use of
hydrogen-powered fuel cells, vehicles that run on biofuels and
other alternative low-carbon fuels, reducing the weight of the
vehicle using a range of stronger and lighter materials, and
approaches to keeping the interior of the car cooler (reducing
the load of the air condition system to further reduce fuel
consumption and emissions).

The workshop comes on the heels of ARB fulfilling its final
commitment [LINK to Press Release here] to an agreement announced
at the White House last May. That agreement established
California’s clean cars law as the national greenhouse standard.

The next-generation car will have reductions of greenhouse gas
emissions beyond the 30 percent mandated by that standard while
continuing to improve on reductions of smog-forming pollutants.
Thanks to past efforts by ARB, current tailpipe emissions of
those pollutants are 99.7 percent cleaner than a car from the
late 1960s.

“California has set, and will continue to set, tough standards
for cleaner, more efficient vehicles that the rest of the nation
can follow,” said Nichols. “This successful model of state
leadership will be applied in the future to continue to provide
the cleanest possible cars with even greater greenhouse gas
reductions.”

 

The workshop begins March 2, at 9 AM at the Air Resources Board,
9530 Telstar Avenue,

El Monte, California 91731.

 

A webcast of the workshop is at:
http://epanet.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1

The Air Resources Board is a department of the California
Environmental Protection Agency.  ARB’s mission is to promote and
protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through
effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and
considering effects on the economy.  The ARB oversees all air
pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain
health based air quality standards.
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