Comments on: California’s Green Car Roadmap to 2050

By: tapra1

tapra1 — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:01:40 +0000

or expected market acceptance, of those cars and trucks. Instead the agency calculated where the statewide vehicle fleet should be.Best Dedicated Hosting

By: Roy Keeney

Roy Keeney — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:42:29 +0000

Where is all the electricity coming from to charge up all the batteries? Where are the plans to generate the kind of electrical power millions of cars will need?

By: veek

veek — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:02:54 +0000

The strategy of deliberately mislabeling “Wishful Thinking” as “Hope” worked wonderfully well and was quite popular in the last US presidential campaign, so it is only reasonable that state planners should use it too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:48:50 +0000

The key to carbon tax/gas tax is phased implementation such that business can adopt over time with minor impact.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:39:36 +0000

I agree we need to cut down on gasoline usage. But, we have to do it a common sense way. The Carbon Credit will kill our Economy and force jobs overseas. We cannot afford it and we can not afford not to do something. My Hope is in Nuclear Fission and Hydrogen Cars is the answer in my opinion. But how long in the future this energy will be ready is unknown. Are we trading Carbon in our atmosphere, for lead batteries in our landfills. Cheap fuel is what gives Our country an advantage over other countries!

By: Dan L

Dan L — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:13:37 +0000

I have mixed feelings.

On the one hand, it is incredibly naive to assume that you can work backward from a target emissions level to production targets like these. No automaker in the world would invest the money to tool up their factories to produce 40% HEVs by 2020, expecting to begin scaling back production immediately, back down to 20% by 2030.

On the other hand, continued economic growth of the kind we have seen for the last century would cause a 2% annual increase in fuel consumption. That comes out to a doubling in fuel consumption between 2010 and 2040. I don't believe that the oil reserves exist to allow that kind of growth. So suspended economic growth coupled with extremely high fuel prices seems a likely outcome. Under those conditions, demand for conventional vehicles will plummet.

By: jonak

jonak — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:37:46 +0000

.. in other words, rather than actually do a study and apply any discipline, they made something up to get the answer they wanted. Pathetic, really, and paid for out of our taxes.

Instead of making up fairy stories, how about working to introduce a decent level of sales tax on gasoline ?
If California added $3 tax to gas, (to take the price up to European levels) it might actually promote some change.....

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:58:05 +0000

Considering the graph indicates % of new car sale,
generally agree with ex-ev1 with the following twist:

* rise of PHEV starting 2012
* followed by declining HEV sales within 5 years (peak in 2017)
* long term wise, PHEV and BEV taking 40/40 of the market and 20% consists of other

By: Mr.Bear

Mr.Bear — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:07:04 +0000

Someone inform California that fuel cell vehicles are not zero emission. Fuel cells emit water vapor. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas not to mention it leads to cloud formation. Makes me wonder if a fleet of fuel cell cars in California will increase rainfall in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado.

By: Richard S

Richard S — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:49:14 +0000

I agree with ex-EV1 with the exception that a hopeful transition from parallel to series HEV’s could extend the viability of the technology even further. With the generator maintaining a constant load and the weight savings of having a single drive train, future HEV’s will be significantly more efficient than todays models.