California Bill Mandating Increase In Zero Emission Vehicles Sales Quotas Withdrawn

A California lawmaker said she will withdraw a bill in the state Legislature that would have required 15 percent of new car sales be zero emission vehicles by 2025 due to opposition from automakers, the oil industry and labor.

"With just a week and a half to move the bill through, there just wasn't enough time to overcome the opposition," Allison Ruff, a spokeswoman for bill author Assemblywoman Autumn Burke, D-Inglewood, told Reuters in an email Thursday.

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TomM - 8/19/2016 7:14:43 AM

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There is no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle - even a bicyclist pants when pedaling. EVs simpl put the emissions at the electric generator - instead of the highway - and while that may be a more remote location - it is NOT zero emissions.

As far as a "sales" requirement - how do you enforce that on the public - are people to enter a lottery to see who can buy a gas car? And still - EVs are still not in similar price ranges as gas cars - so some still cannot afford to buy one. If you enforce that on the manufacturers - that means they have to sell the cars really cheap - and right now not all manufacturers sell EVs anyway.

800over - 8/19/2016 9:28:49 AM

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Just wondering what the crash test dummies would look like right now if there were policy makers (private and public) leading the changes in automotive safety....probably still driving death traps.