California Air Resources Board Head: All New Cars Should Be Zero-Emission In 2030 - Green Car Reports
But Mary Nichols--the chair of this agency since 2007--isn't satisfied with having just a few electric cars on California roads. "Nichols really does intend to force automakers to eventually sell nothing but electrics," according to a recent Bloomberg profile (via the Honda Fit EV Owners Facebook group). In an interview with the news service, the 70-year-old Nichols said that she plans to push regulations that would all but eliminate sales of new cars with internal-combustion engines in California over the next few decades. California's current zero-emission vehicle mandate requires that 2. 7 percent of new cars sold in the state this year produce no greenhouse-gas emissions. That requirement is set to increase yearly beginning in 2018, reaching 22 percent of new-car sales in 2025. Nichols reportedly wants to push further, making 100 percent of new vehicles sold produce zero- or almost-zero emissions by 2030. This... She drives a Honda Fit EV--one of the "compliance cars" built solely to satisfy the state's zero-emission vehicle mandate, and one that she'll have to give back when her lease expires. Source: www.greencarreports.com
