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Eugene

(61,899 posts) Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:32 PM Aug 2016

California lawmaker to float zero emission vehicle bill

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Fri Aug 12, 2016 3:53pm EDT

California lawmaker to float zero emission vehicle bill

By Rory Carroll | SAN FRANCISCO

A California lawmaker next week will introduce a bill requiring 15 percent of all vehicles sold in California be emissions-free by 2025, a spokesperson said on Friday.

Assemblywoman Autumn Burke said the legislation will help ensure that California's current target of 1.5 million zero emissions vehicles by 2025 is met with actual vehicles on the road and not clean car credits, which environmentalists claim have flooded the market.

(Reporting by Rory Carroll; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-emissions-vehicles-idUSKCN10N2B5

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California lawmaker to float zero emission vehicle bill (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2016 OP

Will they require 15% of new car buyers to buy them? n/t MichMan Aug 2016 #1

I hope they include money for charging infrastructure tinrobot Aug 2016 #2

They've been passing this bill regularly for several decades. NNadir Aug 2016 #3

MichMan

(11,932 posts)

1. Will they require 15% of new car buyers to buy them? n/t

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Fri Aug 12, 2016, 05:42 PM

Aug 2016

tinrobot

(10,903 posts)

2. I hope they include money for charging infrastructure

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Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:00 PM

Aug 2016

If they don't, the lines at the fast chargers could get quite long...

NNadir

(33,523 posts)

3. They've been passing this bill regularly for several decades.

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Sat Aug 13, 2016, 03:33 PM

Aug 2016

No matter how many versions they pass in the future, it's unlikely that the bill will fare any better in something called reality than past versions.

It shows that despite having UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UCLA, and UC Santa Barbara, they're not real strong in engineering and science in that gas dependent hell hole.

I will admit that the last time I was in San Francisco, I did seem more Tesla car crap than ever before, but it's meaningless, particularly as California electricity is getting dirtier by the minute.

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