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" Earlier in December the California Air Resources Board released a draft of an environmental analysis of proposed changes mandated by its Advanced Clean Car program. This analysis gives a clear view of CARB&amp;#039;s posture, including how increasing regulation will increase jobs as a next generation of vehicles and supporting infrastructure is required, greenhouse gasses are assumed a proven danger and the state should legislate increased sales of zero emission and plug-in hybrid vehicles starting in 2018. This matters outside the golden state as what&amp;#039;s emitted in California doesn&amp;#039;t stay in California because a Federal exemption allows California to enact stricter-than-federal emission regulations. These more aggressive regulations then migrate world-wide as automakers and regulators respond to developing technologies and political pressure. Central to the Advanced Clean Car program is the integration of traditional smog-forming emission regulations with limits on greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide, methane) emissions. They want a single, coordinated package of requirements for 2015 to 2025 model year vehicles. The inclusion of carbon dioxide limits is a defacto fuel consumption regulation. California&amp;#039;s goal is an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. CARB cites the headquartering of Tesla, CODA Automotive and Fisker in California as examples of job formation in response to environmental regulation. Aggressive environmental regulation is seen as important to the volume of venture capital spent in California says CARB. Sales of electric and fuel cell vehicles are forecasted to increase greatly. Electric vehicle sales in California are projected at 13,900 in 2018 and would rise to 65,000 vehicles in 2025. Increases in fuel cell vehicle sales are even more dramatic, mushrooming from a projected 2,900 in 2018 to 43,600 in 2025. Interestingly, the CARB report suggests vehicle miles travel would likely rise somewhat because those technologies that make a so-called zero emissions vehicle also mean less operating cost (electricity is cheaper than gasoline). Naturally, the CARB report &amp;quot;grinds exceedingly fine&amp;quot; to recycle Sir Francis Bacon. The 246 page report mainly focuses on the environmental impact of implementing to proposed rules, down to how new job creation might impinge on recreational use of parks (not significantly) or the risk of &amp;quot;loss, injury or death&amp;quot; from unstable soils at new battery manufacturing construction sites (significant, but mitigatable). The report may be read at here. No related posts. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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