On March 27, 2008 the California Air Resources Board, or CARB, will vote once again on the Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate. The mandate, which began in 1990, was put in place to regulate the number of ZEV's on the road. When the bill first started, automakers such as GM, and Toyota began to make electric cars. In 2003 when the bill was changed, the number that the automakers needed to produce drastically dropped, and the major automakers completely scrapped production of electric cars. For more information, please visit the "Who Killed The Electric Car?" portion of this site.
Wired.com reports:
Under a proposal pending before the Air Resources Board, state regulators would slash -- from 75,000 to as few as 27,500 -- the number of zero-emission vehicles automakers must build between 2012 and 2017. Under the changes, the big automakers could put fewer than 2,500 nonpolluting cars on the road in the next four years. That's only 300 more than Tesla Motors plans to produce in the next two.
I guess we will just have to see how the board votes tomorrow....
Wired.com Link
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