California wants 1 million electric, plug-in hybrid vehicles on the roads in a decade

Posted: Sep 22, 2010
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2011 Nissan LEAF / 2011 Chevrolet Volt

California, the nation’s largest state has unveiled a new plan to have 1 million electric and plug-in hybrids vehicles on the roads in a decade. The state unveiled the plan for its energy future two days prior to Air Resources Board releases their requirement for how many emission-free vehicles it wants by next year.

Currently, there are just a few thousand electric-vehicles in the U.S. today – 1 million electric and plug-in hybrids in California would still be a small percentage of the state’s total vehicle fleet of more than 32 million passenger cars and trucks. The state currently has about 200,000 hybrid vehicles on the road – most of any state.

California says that by the 2018 model year, the state will require automakers to build a large number of zero-emission vehicles. These can be either fuel-cell or fully battery powered vehicles.

Seems like that’s good news for the Nissan LEAF, Chevrolet Volt and the upcoming Ford Focus Electric and Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid.

- By: Omar Rana

Source: Detroit News


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  • guest

    Dear Omar Rana:

    I hate to take the wind out of your sails because I actually think using alternative energy cars is very important. But Labeling All Electric Vehicles as Zero Emission vehicles has got to be one of the biggest lies in History. You know darn well that 75% of our Electricity comes from Dirty Rotten Coal. Charging these so called “Zero Emissions Vehicles” with Coal will put almost as much pollution in the Air as if they were using Gasoline. Essentially the Foaming at the Mouth Greenies and the Obamanistas have put the cart before the horse. They should have move toward replacing the Coal Fired plants with Natural Gas and Nuclear plants. Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber (Obama, Reid and Pelosi) are always blabbing about using Science. I think Nuclear power is Science the last time I checked. I find it odd that they can be so interested in using Science to Kill Babies and turn their backs on using Science to produce a cleaner type of Energy so that we could actually clean up our Air with Plug-In Hybrids and All Electric Cars. France gets about 75% of their Electricity from Nuclear and they Re-process their Nuclear Fuel Rods. (Hello Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber???)
    So until we get our Electricity from a better fuel, forget Electric cars. And please don’t insult my intelligence by calling them “Zero Emissions Cars?”

    I think a better use of our taxpayer money is to follow the Brazil model and push Advanced Sugarcane Ethanol (Domestically produced or Imported without an Import Tax) and Flex Fuel Vehicles and FFV Conversion Kits for older vehicles. This would Clean the Air immediately and isn’t that the Fuddrucking point??? It would also enable us to flip the switch when the Arabs get greedy with their prices. Thanks to Dumb, Dumb and Dumber and their Moratorium on nearly all Drilling in the Gulf, we may be importing nearly 90% of our Oil in Risky Tankers. This is proven technology that does not require more research!!!

    I can’t stand Bill Clinton but I have to give him and Enron credit for Cleaning up the air in his administration by changing a number of Coal Fired plants to Natural Gas Burners. He got results. They were also doing it Internationally until the Harvard Crooks, Skilling and Fastow took over Enron and ran it into the Ground. Converting Coal to Natural Gas is proven technology that does not require more research!!!

    I haven’t given up on Cleaning up Coal yet and I think cleaning up CO2 with Algae is just as valid of an idea of cleaning up the air as Cellulosic Ethanol which has gotton over 90% of the funding from Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber. I wish someone would look into who owns these “Cellulosic Ethanol Pilot Plants?” I think Algae Research like that being done by Algenol is actually more promising than the Cellulosic people that have taken Billions of Taxpayer Money and have not produced a drop yet. I am so sick and tired of their lies starting with Verenium that I would defund them and put all new funding in Algae. This is not proven Technology and nearly all these people have made and broken promises just like the Cellulosic Liars.

  • http://freedomtransit.com/whyft.html Jim Beregi

    If California wants a million electric cars by 2020, it needs to help Solar Transportation Technology build a pilot project to demonstrate the Freedom Transit system designed to enable electric car use. Please see our website: http://freedomtransit.com/whyft.html

  • Van

    Dear Guest,

    You are completely wrong about coal being more polluting than gas powered cars. It is actually far more efficient and far less polluting by a factor of about 1,000 than burning gasoline in cars.

    What have you personally done to help solve the pollution/energy problems we all share? We solar powered our house in 2004, and have had at least one electric car since then (2 for about 18 months).

    Not doing anything about the problem? Then stop telling the rest of us what to do.

    I agree with you about the politicos. This should not be an issue that is decided by politics, we all have to embrace all the available solutions – nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, etc.