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Selling out: The real reason automakers want you to buy electric.(Brief Article)
Wanna buy a gas-sucking high-performance roadster? If you live in California, don't be alarmed if you're offered a roadworthy golf cart to go with it.
Under the California Air Resources Board's highly controversial zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) mandate, automakers have to sell more than 8000 electric vehicles in California by the end of 2003 to avoid major penalties on bread-and-butter gasoline-powered vehicles. But there's more than one way to skin a cat, or cart.
CARB spokesman Richard Verenchik says that in addition to electric versions of popular gas vehicles, such as the electric Ranger and RAV4 EV that Ford and Toyota sell to park patrols and government fleets in California, automakers can meet the ZEV quota by selling street-legal short-range, low-speed (up to 35 mph) ...
- Electric vehicles: helping California fight the war on smog.(L.A. Forum)
- Magazine article from: Business Forum Dunlap, John D. January 1, 1997 700+ words
...will soon have electric vehicles on the road in California - vehicles that...program argue that electric vehicles will never become...difference in California's war on smog. They claim that electric vehicles don't have enough...
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON, AQMD PIONEER SOLAR-CHARGING CARPORT FOR ELECTRIC...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 4, 1991 700+ words
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON...CARPORT FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES ROSEMEAD...day when electric vehicles are common...Southern California Edison and...200,000 electric vehicles will be on Southern California roadways...
- Forecasting the market for electric vehicles in California using conjoint...
- Magazine article from: The Energy Journal Segal, Robin July 1, 1995 700+ words
...vested the California Air Resources...Fuels," (California Air Resources...synonymous with electric vehicles, set to begin...demand from electric vehicles is primarily...Southern California Edison, 1989...
- Automakers would spring for EV test in California.(electric vehicles)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Automotive News Stoffer, Harry December 18, 2000 700+ words
...emissions mandate in California, automakers have...willingness to buy electric vehicles. Under the plan...manufacturer's California sales was to be electric vehicles. But regulators...the staff of the California Air Resources...
- Poll of 900 California New Car Buyers Shows Strong Demand For Reasonably Priced...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 8, 2000 700+ words
...buyers in California would purchase...emission electric vehicles if more of...Market for Electric Vehicles," the survey of 934 California new car buyers...market in California. This equates...226,800 electric vehicles, a potential...
- Electric vehicles arrive in Northern California in high gear.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 17, 1988 700+ words
ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARRIVE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IN HIGH GEAR SACRAMENTO...fuming counterparts. Electric vehicles finally are here, and Southern California Edison Co. has them...commercially available electric vehicles, or "EVs," to...
- Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Southern California Edison Co. 'roll...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 30, 1989 700+ words
...ROLL OUT' NEW ELECTRIC VEHICLES LOS ANGELES...and Southern California Edison Company...said the six electric vehicles (EVs) purchased...distribution of electric vehicles," Braude...on Southern California roadways...
- DOWNEY FORD NAMED ONE OF FIRST DEALERSHIPS IN CALIFORNIA TO SERVICE ELECTRIC...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 14, 1993 700+ words
...as one of the first two dealerships in California authorized to provide service to its electric vehicles. Downey Ford will service Ford Ecostar electric vehicles leased by Southern California Edison. Downey Ford is one of four dealerships...