California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted on Mar. 27, 2008, to release the Auto Alliance from their Mar., 2003 promise to sell 25,000 fuel cell cars between 2012 and 2014. They had agreed to go back to battery EVs if fuel cells don't work. Now, they are breaking their promise. Fuel cells failed, they now agree, but they still refuse to build proven, successful EVs. Join the Yahoo group and help reverse CARB's killing the Electric car all over again.
Take the pledge: no new car until plug-ins are for sale!
Write a letter to CARB, to pols, or to the press (letter-writing program addresses the letter, starts you off with a few ideas, and helps you print it out so you can mail or fax it to the addressee). CARB takes taxpayers' money under false pretenses of cleaning up mobile pollution, but they follow the orders of the Alliance of Auto Makers.
California Air Resources Board (CARB) fails California and the USA The Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEV) was intended to be a requirement for actual production, contrary to Board Member Dan Sperling's assertion that it's merely "technology forcing". It was not intended as a research program. It was intended to put real Zero Emission Vehicles into the hands of willing buyers, on the free market. Enough of them to make a real difference, 10% by 2003. Previous CARB weakness led to retreat after retreat, until now even the Board fails to remember its purpose. Part of the whittling-away of the program was the crushing of the battery Electric cars, based on auto company solemn promises in 2003 to actually build fuel cell cars. Even the few demonstration fuel cells, too few to make a difference, were just a sham they had no intention of honoring. Their already faint promises were not kept. Now CARB is formally releasing auto makers from even the simulation of compliance with the original ZEV mandate. The failure continues the mistakes of former CARB Chairman Alan Lloyd. Mr. Sperling, then, is not as knowledgeable as he is supposed by the Board that acquiesced in this latest destruction of the ZEV mandate. There is no longer need to be "technology-neutral", as CARB Chair Nichols and even opposition groups maintain; the technology HAS been tested, and we KNOW what works: 1997 EV1 with lead batteries from Panasonic Storage Battery Co., up to 110 miles at up to 80 mph; 1997 HondaEV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy PEVE, up to 140 miles at up to 80 mph; 1999 EV1 with NiMH batteries from GM-Ovonics, up to 160 miles (140 EPA certified) at up to 80 mph; 1997 Toyota RAV4-EV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy, up to 120 miles at up to 80 mph. Last sold in Nov., 2002, these are still running fine, even though Toyota has refused to sell replacement batteries; Various battery scooters, Neighborhood EVs, motorcycles and city cars. AND THAT'S IT. You don't see any fuel cell car in there, and there never will be, because fuel cell cars will never be offered for sale on the open market. If they ever were offered for sale at normal prices, buy about 10, and sell the components for a gain of 1000%! What's needed is a recognition that all the research and testing has already been done, and it's time for PRODUCTION. If these oil-free EVs had been improved each year, allowed to be owned and modified, with new models as people see them running, we would be in a much different world. The original vision of 1990 was valid, it was betrayed by intimidated, misguided or weak regulators. Slow charging at night is a boon, not a problem; an EV need not have a range of more than 200 miles, long-distance trips should be done via the airport or train station. So the points that must be raised (and CARB staff must answer): 1. ZEV IS NOT A RESEARCH PROGRAM. START PRODUCTION, BASED ON DEMAND. 2. THE ONLY WORKING ZEV IS BEV. START WITH SELLING BEV. Let's get rid of the fuel cell distraction, for now; if, as CARB members D'Adamo and Nichols claim, fuel cells are a thing of the future, let them stay there in the by-and-by until proven, and let's get started in the present doing the job CARB was paid to do. This disgraceful CARB decision to grant auto makers a 70% reduction in their solemn promises of already poor compliance amounts to fiddling while the Earth burns up, while auto companies are going in the WRONG direction, and while climate change is approaching the tipping point of no return. The general public, media and responible lawmakers must join together to enable CARB to do the job it's spending $750 million per year to perform, which is to move away from petroleum to viable ZEV technologies. CARB could buy and give away 7500 Tesla cars per year for the money it wastes on pretending to regulate the auto makers. If AAM are "self-regulating", why pay CARB? Recent studies by U.S.C., presented to CARB, show that children raised in proximity to freeways have signficantly more permanent lung damage during the critical year 12 through year 18 lung formation period than those raised farther away. NOx and SOx from vehicle emissions is unavoidable so long as people live in the midst of tailpipe emissions and refinery nightly discharges. CARB and its associated Regional Air Quality Boards must be brought to realize this issue, and act on it. Pleasant-sounding NOx is really anhydrous Nitrous Acid, which is Oxidized into anhydrous Nitric Acid by sunlight in the presence of Ozone. Nitric (or Nitrous) Acid burns permanent holes in kid's lungs. What's worth that? What oil company profit is worth that? SOx is just as destructive, forming ultimately anhydrous Sulfuric Acid, which breaks up delicate tissue to extract water, and then becomes concentrated Sulfuric Acid inside kids lungs. In the midst of the current fiscal and climate crisis, CARB's weak performance cannot be allowed to stand. Please join with friends, neighbors and groups to call CARB into question, to eviscerate its budget, and to require it to be responsive to the needs of the people instead of beholden to auto and oil company lobbyists. It's an election year, and this is the most important issue of our time. Doug Korthof, 562-430-2495 moderator of Electric_Vehicles_For_Sale Yahoo group, started in 2003 when CARB killed the Electric car the LAST time. Please join this group to give lobbying more clout; SealBeach.org Powering a plug-in car with solar power; YouTube.com/liveoilfree Videos of driving an EV and CARB intransigence; DrivingTheFuture.com How EV-PV works, helping the grid and showing a vision of America's clean energy future.
EV1 RIDES AGAIN!, briefly, until GM forbade it to be shown again on the street. Why would GM force a Cease and Desist on this revived clean car?
Videolog of EV videos

Print off Letter to California Air Resources Board ("CARB"), mail it or fax it in

Voice of Reality The eclectic blog of Doug Korthof: what the paid-off media won't talk about.

California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted on Mar. 27, 2008, to release the Auto Alliance from their Mar., 2003 promise to sell 25,000 fuel cell cars between 2012 and 2014. They had agreed to go back to battery EVs if fuel cells don't work. Now, they are breaking their promise. Fuel cells failed, they now agree, but they still refuse to build proven, successful EVs. Join the Yahoo group and help reverse CARB's killing the Electric car all over again.     Take the pledge: no new car until plug-ins are for sale!     Write a letter to CARB, to pols, or to the press (letter-writing program addresses the letter, starts you off with a few ideas, and helps you print it out so you can mail or fax it to the addressee). CARB takes taxpayers' money under false pretenses of cleaning up mobile pollution, but they follow the orders of the Alliance of Auto Makers. California Air Resources Board (CARB) fails California and the USA The Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEV) was intended to be a requirement for actual production, contrary to Board Member Dan Sperling's assertion that it's merely "technology forcing". It was not intended as a research program. It was intended to put real Zero Emission Vehicles into the hands of willing buyers, on the free market. Enough of them to make a real difference, 10% by 2003. Previous CARB weakness led to retreat after retreat, until now even the Board fails to remember its purpose. Part of the whittling-away of the program was the crushing of the battery Electric cars, based on auto company solemn promises in 2003 to actually build fuel cell cars. Even the few demonstration fuel cells, too few to make a difference, were just a sham they had no intention of honoring. Their already faint promises were not kept. Now CARB is formally releasing auto makers from even the simulation of compliance with the original ZEV mandate. The failure continues the mistakes of former CARB Chairman Alan Lloyd. Mr. Sperling, then, is not as knowledgeable as he is supposed by the Board that acquiesced in this latest destruction of the ZEV mandate. There is no longer need to be "technology-neutral", as CARB Chair Nichols and even opposition groups maintain; the technology HAS been tested, and we KNOW what works: 1997 EV1 with lead batteries from Panasonic Storage Battery Co., up to 110 miles at up to 80 mph; 1997 HondaEV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy PEVE, up to 140 miles at up to 80 mph; 1999 EV1 with NiMH batteries from GM-Ovonics, up to 160 miles (140 EPA certified) at up to 80 mph; 1997 Toyota RAV4-EV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy, up to 120 miles at up to 80 mph. Last sold in Nov., 2002, these are still running fine, even though Toyota has refused to sell replacement batteries; Various battery scooters, Neighborhood EVs, motorcycles and city cars. AND THAT'S IT. You don't see any fuel cell car in there, and there never will be, because fuel cell cars will never be offered for sale on the open market. If they ever were offered for sale at normal prices, buy about 10, and sell the components for a gain of 1000%! What's needed is a recognition that all the research and testing has already been done, and it's time for PRODUCTION. If these oil-free EVs had been improved each year, allowed to be owned and modified, with new models as people see them running, we would be in a much different world. The original vision of 1990 was valid, it was betrayed by intimidated, misguided or weak regulators. Slow charging at night is a boon, not a problem; an EV need not have a range of more than 200 miles, long-distance trips should be done via the airport or train station. So the points that must be raised (and CARB staff must answer): 1. ZEV IS NOT A RESEARCH PROGRAM. START PRODUCTION, BASED ON DEMAND. 2. THE ONLY WORKING ZEV IS BEV. START WITH SELLING BEV. Let's get rid of the fuel cell distraction, for now; if, as CARB members D'Adamo and Nichols claim, fuel cells are a thing of the future, let them stay there in the by-and-by until proven, and let's get started in the present doing the job CARB was paid to do. This disgraceful CARB decision to grant auto makers a 70% reduction in their solemn promises of already poor compliance amounts to fiddling while the Earth burns up, while auto companies are going in the WRONG direction, and while climate change is approaching the tipping point of no return. The general public, media and responible lawmakers must join together to enable CARB to do the job it's spending $750 million per year to perform, which is to move away from petroleum to viable ZEV technologies. CARB could buy and give away 7500 Tesla cars per year for the money it wastes on pretending to regulate the auto makers. If AAM are "self-regulating", why pay CARB? Recent studies by U.S.C., presented to CARB, show that children raised in proximity to freeways have signficantly more permanent lung damage during the critical year 12 through year 18 lung formation period than those raised farther away. NOx and SOx from vehicle emissions is unavoidable so long as people live in the midst of tailpipe emissions and refinery nightly discharges. CARB and its associated Regional Air Quality Boards must be brought to realize this issue, and act on it. Pleasant-sounding NOx is really anhydrous Nitrous Acid, which is Oxidized into anhydrous Nitric Acid by sunlight in the presence of Ozone. Nitric (or Nitrous) Acid burns permanent holes in kid's lungs. What's worth that? What oil company profit is worth that? SOx is just as destructive, forming ultimately anhydrous Sulfuric Acid, which breaks up delicate tissue to extract water, and then becomes concentrated Sulfuric Acid inside kids lungs. In the midst of the current fiscal and climate crisis, CARB's weak performance cannot be allowed to stand. Please join with friends, neighbors and groups to call CARB into question, to eviscerate its budget, and to require it to be responsive to the needs of the people instead of beholden to auto and oil company lobbyists. It's an election year, and this is the most important issue of our time. Doug Korthof, 562-430-2495 moderator of Electric_Vehicles_For_Sale Yahoo group, started in 2003 when CARB killed the Electric car the LAST time. Please join this group to give lobbying more clout; SealBeach.org Powering a plug-in car with solar power; YouTube.com/liveoilfree Videos of driving an EV and CARB intransigence; DrivingTheFuture.com How EV-PV works, helping the grid and showing a vision of America's clean energy future.     EV1 RIDES AGAIN!, briefly, until GM forbade it to be shown again on the street. Why would GM force a Cease and Desist on this revived clean car?     Videolog of EV videos   Print off Letter to California Air Resources Board ("CARB"), mail it or fax it in Voice of Reality The eclectic blog of Doug Korthof: what the paid-off media won't talk about. California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted on Mar. 27, 2008, to release the Auto Alliance from their Mar., 2003 promise to sell 25,000 fuel cell cars between 2012 and 2014. They had agreed to go back to battery EVs if fuel cells don't work. Now, they are breaking their promise. Fuel cells failed, they now agree, but they still refuse to build proven, successful EVs. Join the Yahoo group and help reverse CARB's killing the Electric car all over again.     Take the pledge: no new car until plug-ins are for sale!     Write a letter to CARB, to pols, or to the press (letter-writing program addresses the letter, starts you off with a few ideas, and helps you print it out so you can mail or fax it to the addressee). CARB takes taxpayers' money under false pretenses of cleaning up mobile pollution, but they follow the orders of the Alliance of Auto Makers. California Air Resources Board (CARB) fails California and the USA The Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEV) was intended to be a requirement for actual production, contrary to Board Member Dan Sperling's assertion that it's merely "technology forcing". It was not intended as a research program. It was intended to put real Zero Emission Vehicles into the hands of willing buyers, on the free market. Enough of them to make a real difference, 10% by 2003. Previous CARB weakness led to retreat after retreat, until now even the Board fails to remember its purpose. Part of the whittling-away of the program was the crushing of the battery Electric cars, based on auto company solemn promises in 2003 to actually build fuel cell cars. Even the few demonstration fuel cells, too few to make a difference, were just a sham they had no intention of honoring. Their already faint promises were not kept. Now CARB is formally releasing auto makers from even the simulation of compliance with the original ZEV mandate. The failure continues the mistakes of former CARB Chairman Alan Lloyd. Mr. Sperling, then, is not as knowledgeable as he is supposed by the Board that acquiesced in this latest destruction of the ZEV mandate. There is no longer need to be "technology-neutral", as CARB Chair Nichols and even opposition groups maintain; the technology HAS been tested, and we KNOW what works: 1997 EV1 with lead batteries from Panasonic Storage Battery Co., up to 110 miles at up to 80 mph; 1997 HondaEV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy PEVE, up to 140 miles at up to 80 mph; 1999 EV1 with NiMH batteries from GM-Ovonics, up to 160 miles (140 EPA certified) at up to 80 mph; 1997 Toyota RAV4-EV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy, up to 120 miles at up to 80 mph. Last sold in Nov., 2002, these are still running fine, even though Toyota has refused to sell replacement batteries; Various battery scooters, Neighborhood EVs, motorcycles and city cars. AND THAT'S IT. You don't see any fuel cell car in there, and there never will be, because fuel cell cars will never be offered for sale on the open market. If they ever were offered for sale at normal prices, buy about 10, and sell the components for a gain of 1000%! What's needed is a recognition that all the research and testing has already been done, and it's time for PRODUCTION. If these oil-free EVs had been improved each year, allowed to be owned and modified, with new models as people see them running, we would be in a much different world. The original vision of 1990 was valid, it was betrayed by intimidated, misguided or weak regulators. Slow charging at night is a boon, not a problem; an EV need not have a range of more than 200 miles, long-distance trips should be done via the airport or train station. So the points that must be raised (and CARB staff must answer): 1. ZEV IS NOT A RESEARCH PROGRAM. START PRODUCTION, BASED ON DEMAND. 2. THE ONLY WORKING ZEV IS BEV. START WITH SELLING BEV. Let's get rid of the fuel cell distraction, for now; if, as CARB members D'Adamo and Nichols claim, fuel cells are a thing of the future, let them stay there in the by-and-by until proven, and let's get started in the present doing the job CARB was paid to do. This disgraceful CARB decision to grant auto makers a 70% reduction in their solemn promises of already poor compliance amounts to fiddling while the Earth burns up, while auto companies are going in the WRONG direction, and while climate change is approaching the tipping point of no return. The general public, media and responible lawmakers must join together to enable CARB to do the job it's spending $750 million per year to perform, which is to move away from petroleum to viable ZEV technologies. CARB could buy and give away 7500 Tesla cars per year for the money it wastes on pretending to regulate the auto makers. If AAM are "self-regulating", why pay CARB? Recent studies by U.S.C., presented to CARB, show that children raised in proximity to freeways have signficantly more permanent lung damage during the critical year 12 through year 18 lung formation period than those raised farther away. NOx and SOx from vehicle emissions is unavoidable so long as people live in the midst of tailpipe emissions and refinery nightly discharges. CARB and its associated Regional Air Quality Boards must be brought to realize this issue, and act on it. Pleasant-sounding NOx is really anhydrous Nitrous Acid, which is Oxidized into anhydrous Nitric Acid by sunlight in the presence of Ozone. Nitric (or Nitrous) Acid burns permanent holes in kid's lungs. What's worth that? What oil company profit is worth that? SOx is just as destructive, forming ultimately anhydrous Sulfuric Acid, which breaks up delicate tissue to extract water, and then becomes concentrated Sulfuric Acid inside kids lungs. In the midst of the current fiscal and climate crisis, CARB's weak performance cannot be allowed to stand. Please join with friends, neighbors and groups to call CARB into question, to eviscerate its budget, and to require it to be responsive to the needs of the people instead of beholden to auto and oil company lobbyists. It's an election year, and this is the most important issue of our time. Doug Korthof, 562-430-2495 moderator of Electric_Vehicles_For_Sale Yahoo group, started in 2003 when CARB killed the Electric car the LAST time. Please join this group to give lobbying more clout; SealBeach.org Powering a plug-in car with solar power; YouTube.com/liveoilfree Videos of driving an EV and CARB intransigence; DrivingTheFuture.com How EV-PV works, helping the grid and showing a vision of America's clean energy future.     EV1 RIDES AGAIN!, briefly, until GM forbade it to be shown again on the street. Why would GM force a Cease and Desist on this revived clean car?     Videolog of EV videos   Print off Letter to California Air Resources Board ("CARB"), mail it or fax it in Voice of Reality The eclectic blog of Doug Korthof: what the paid-off media won't talk about. California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted on Mar. 27, 2008, to release the Auto Alliance from their Mar., 2003 promise to sell 25,000 fuel cell cars between 2012 and 2014. They had agreed to go back to battery EVs if fuel cells don't work. Now, they are breaking their promise. Fuel cells failed, they now agree, but they still refuse to build proven, successful EVs. Join the Yahoo group and help reverse CARB's killing the Electric car all over again.     Take the pledge: no new car until plug-ins are for sale!     Write a letter to CARB, to pols, or to the press (letter-writing program addresses the letter, starts you off with a few ideas, and helps you print it out so you can mail or fax it to the addressee). CARB takes taxpayers' money under false pretenses of cleaning up mobile pollution, but they follow the orders of the Alliance of Auto Makers. California Air Resources Board (CARB) fails California and the USA The Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEV) was intended to be a requirement for actual production, contrary to Board Member Dan Sperling's assertion that it's merely "technology forcing". It was not intended as a research program. It was intended to put real Zero Emission Vehicles into the hands of willing buyers, on the free market. Enough of them to make a real difference, 10% by 2003. Previous CARB weakness led to retreat after retreat, until now even the Board fails to remember its purpose. Part of the whittling-away of the program was the crushing of the battery Electric cars, based on auto company solemn promises in 2003 to actually build fuel cell cars. Even the few demonstration fuel cells, too few to make a difference, were just a sham they had no intention of honoring. Their already faint promises were not kept. Now CARB is formally releasing auto makers from even the simulation of compliance with the original ZEV mandate. The failure continues the mistakes of former CARB Chairman Alan Lloyd. Mr. Sperling, then, is not as knowledgeable as he is supposed by the Board that acquiesced in this latest destruction of the ZEV mandate. There is no longer need to be "technology-neutral", as CARB Chair Nichols and even opposition groups maintain; the technology HAS been tested, and we KNOW what works: 1997 EV1 with lead batteries from Panasonic Storage Battery Co., up to 110 miles at up to 80 mph; 1997 HondaEV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy PEVE, up to 140 miles at up to 80 mph; 1999 EV1 with NiMH batteries from GM-Ovonics, up to 160 miles (140 EPA certified) at up to 80 mph; 1997 Toyota RAV4-EV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy, up to 120 miles at up to 80 mph. Last sold in Nov., 2002, these are still running fine, even though Toyota has refused to sell replacement batteries; Various battery scooters, Neighborhood EVs, motorcycles and city cars. AND THAT'S IT. You don't see any fuel cell car in there, and there never will be, because fuel cell cars will never be offered for sale on the open market. If they ever were offered for sale at normal prices, buy about 10, and sell the components for a gain of 1000%! What's needed is a recognition that all the research and testing has already been done, and it's time for PRODUCTION. If these oil-free EVs had been improved each year, allowed to be owned and modified, with new models as people see them running, we would be in a much different world. The original vision of 1990 was valid, it was betrayed by intimidated, misguided or weak regulators. Slow charging at night is a boon, not a problem; an EV need not have a range of more than 200 miles, long-distance trips should be done via the airport or train station. So the points that must be raised (and CARB staff must answer): 1. ZEV IS NOT A RESEARCH PROGRAM. START PRODUCTION, BASED ON DEMAND. 2. THE ONLY WORKING ZEV IS BEV. START WITH SELLING BEV. Let's get rid of the fuel cell distraction, for now; if, as CARB members D'Adamo and Nichols claim, fuel cells are a thing of the future, let them stay there in the by-and-by until proven, and let's get started in the present doing the job CARB was paid to do. This disgraceful CARB decision to grant auto makers a 70% reduction in their solemn promises of already poor compliance amounts to fiddling while the Earth burns up, while auto companies are going in the WRONG direction, and while climate change is approaching the tipping point of no return. The general public, media and responible lawmakers must join together to enable CARB to do the job it's spending $750 million per year to perform, which is to move away from petroleum to viable ZEV technologies. CARB could buy and give away 7500 Tesla cars per year for the money it wastes on pretending to regulate the auto makers. If AAM are "self-regulating", why pay CARB? Recent studies by U.S.C., presented to CARB, show that children raised in proximity to freeways have signficantly more permanent lung damage during the critical year 12 through year 18 lung formation period than those raised farther away. NOx and SOx from vehicle emissions is unavoidable so long as people live in the midst of tailpipe emissions and refinery nightly discharges. CARB and its associated Regional Air Quality Boards must be brought to realize this issue, and act on it. Pleasant-sounding NOx is really anhydrous Nitrous Acid, which is Oxidized into anhydrous Nitric Acid by sunlight in the presence of Ozone. Nitric (or Nitrous) Acid burns permanent holes in kid's lungs. What's worth that? What oil company profit is worth that? SOx is just as destructive, forming ultimately anhydrous Sulfuric Acid, which breaks up delicate tissue to extract water, and then becomes concentrated Sulfuric Acid inside kids lungs. In the midst of the current fiscal and climate crisis, CARB's weak performance cannot be allowed to stand. Please join with friends, neighbors and groups to call CARB into question, to eviscerate its budget, and to require it to be responsive to the needs of the people instead of beholden to auto and oil company lobbyists. It's an election year, and this is the most important issue of our time. Doug Korthof, 562-430-2495 moderator of Electric_Vehicles_For_Sale Yahoo group, started in 2003 when CARB killed the Electric car the LAST time. Please join this group to give lobbying more clout; SealBeach.org Powering a plug-in car with solar power; YouTube.com/liveoilfree Videos of driving an EV and CARB intransigence; DrivingTheFuture.com How EV-PV works, helping the grid and showing a vision of America's clean energy future.     EV1 RIDES AGAIN!, briefly, until GM forbade it to be shown again on the street. Why would GM force a Cease and Desist on this revived clean car?     Videolog of EV videos   Print off Letter to California Air Resources Board ("CARB"), mail it or fax it in Voice of Reality The eclectic blog of Doug Korthof: what the paid-off media won't talk about. California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted on Mar. 27, 2008, to release the Auto Alliance from their Mar., 2003 promise to sell 25,000 fuel cell cars between 2012 and 2014. They had agreed to go back to battery EVs if fuel cells don't work. Now, they are breaking their promise. Fuel cells failed, they now agree, but they still refuse to build proven, successful EVs. Join the Yahoo group and help reverse CARB's killing the Electric car all over again.     Take the pledge: no new car until plug-ins are for sale!     Write a letter to CARB, to pols, or to the press (letter-writing program addresses the letter, starts you off with a few ideas, and helps you print it out so you can mail or fax it to the addressee). CARB takes taxpayers' money under false pretenses of cleaning up mobile pollution, but they follow the orders of the Alliance of Auto Makers. California Air Resources Board (CARB) fails California and the USA The Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEV) was intended to be a requirement for actual production, contrary to Board Member Dan Sperling's assertion that it's merely "technology forcing". It was not intended as a research program. It was intended to put real Zero Emission Vehicles into the hands of willing buyers, on the free market. Enough of them to make a real difference, 10% by 2003. Previous CARB weakness led to retreat after retreat, until now even the Board fails to remember its purpose. Part of the whittling-away of the program was the crushing of the battery Electric cars, based on auto company solemn promises in 2003 to actually build fuel cell cars. Even the few demonstration fuel cells, too few to make a difference, were just a sham they had no intention of honoring. Their already faint promises were not kept. Now CARB is formally releasing auto makers from even the simulation of compliance with the original ZEV mandate. The failure continues the mistakes of former CARB Chairman Alan Lloyd. Mr. Sperling, then, is not as knowledgeable as he is supposed by the Board that acquiesced in this latest destruction of the ZEV mandate. There is no longer need to be "technology-neutral", as CARB Chair Nichols and even opposition groups maintain; the technology HAS been tested, and we KNOW what works: 1997 EV1 with lead batteries from Panasonic Storage Battery Co., up to 110 miles at up to 80 mph; 1997 HondaEV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy PEVE, up to 140 miles at up to 80 mph; 1999 EV1 with NiMH batteries from GM-Ovonics, up to 160 miles (140 EPA certified) at up to 80 mph; 1997 Toyota RAV4-EV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy, up to 120 miles at up to 80 mph. Last sold in Nov., 2002, these are still running fine, even though Toyota has refused to sell replacement batteries; Various battery scooters, Neighborhood EVs, motorcycles and city cars. AND THAT'S IT. You don't see any fuel cell car in there, and there never will be, because fuel cell cars will never be offered for sale on the open market. If they ever were offered for sale at normal prices, buy about 10, and sell the components for a gain of 1000%! What's needed is a recognition that all the research and testing has already been done, and it's time for PRODUCTION. If these oil-free EVs had been improved each year, allowed to be owned and modified, with new models as people see them running, we would be in a much different world. The original vision of 1990 was valid, it was betrayed by intimidated, misguided or weak regulators. Slow charging at night is a boon, not a problem; an EV need not have a range of more than 200 miles, long-distance trips should be done via the airport or train station. So the points that must be raised (and CARB staff must answer): 1. ZEV IS NOT A RESEARCH PROGRAM. START PRODUCTION, BASED ON DEMAND. 2. THE ONLY WORKING ZEV IS BEV. START WITH SELLING BEV. Let's get rid of the fuel cell distraction, for now; if, as CARB members D'Adamo and Nichols claim, fuel cells are a thing of the future, let them stay there in the by-and-by until proven, and let's get started in the present doing the job CARB was paid to do. This disgraceful CARB decision to grant auto makers a 70% reduction in their solemn promises of already poor compliance amounts to fiddling while the Earth burns up, while auto companies are going in the WRONG direction, and while climate change is approaching the tipping point of no return. The general public, media and responible lawmakers must join together to enable CARB to do the job it's spending $750 million per year to perform, which is to move away from petroleum to viable ZEV technologies. CARB could buy and give away 7500 Tesla cars per year for the money it wastes on pretending to regulate the auto makers. If AAM are "self-regulating", why pay CARB? Recent studies by U.S.C., presented to CARB, show that children raised in proximity to freeways have signficantly more permanent lung damage during the critical year 12 through year 18 lung formation period than those raised farther away. NOx and SOx from vehicle emissions is unavoidable so long as people live in the midst of tailpipe emissions and refinery nightly discharges. CARB and its associated Regional Air Quality Boards must be brought to realize this issue, and act on it. Pleasant-sounding NOx is really anhydrous Nitrous Acid, which is Oxidized into anhydrous Nitric Acid by sunlight in the presence of Ozone. Nitric (or Nitrous) Acid burns permanent holes in kid's lungs. What's worth that? What oil company profit is worth that? SOx is just as destructive, forming ultimately anhydrous Sulfuric Acid, which breaks up delicate tissue to extract water, and then becomes concentrated Sulfuric Acid inside kids lungs. In the midst of the current fiscal and climate crisis, CARB's weak performance cannot be allowed to stand. Please join with friends, neighbors and groups to call CARB into question, to eviscerate its budget, and to require it to be responsive to the needs of the people instead of beholden to auto and oil company lobbyists. It's an election year, and this is the most important issue of our time. Doug Korthof, 562-430-2495 moderator of Electric_Vehicles_For_Sale Yahoo group, started in 2003 when CARB killed the Electric car the LAST time. Please join this group to give lobbying more clout; SealBeach.org Powering a plug-in car with solar power; YouTube.com/liveoilfree Videos of driving an EV and CARB intransigence; DrivingTheFuture.com How EV-PV works, helping the grid and showing a vision of America's clean energy future.     EV1 RIDES AGAIN!, briefly, until GM forbade it to be shown again on the street. Why would GM force a Cease and Desist on this revived clean car?     Videolog of EV videos   Print off Letter to California Air Resources Board ("CARB"), mail it or fax it in Voice of Reality The eclectic blog of Doug Korthof: what the paid-off media won't talk about. California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted on Mar. 27, 2008, to release the Auto Alliance from their Mar., 2003 promise to sell 25,000 fuel cell cars between 2012 and 2014. They had agreed to go back to battery EVs if fuel cells don't work. Now, they are breaking their promise. Fuel cells failed, they now agree, but they still refuse to build proven, successful EVs. Join the Yahoo group and help reverse CARB's killing the Electric car all over again.     Take the pledge: no new car until plug-ins are for sale!     Write a letter to CARB, to pols, or to the press (letter-writing program addresses the letter, starts you off with a few ideas, and helps you print it out so you can mail or fax it to the addressee). CARB takes taxpayers' money under false pretenses of cleaning up mobile pollution, but they follow the orders of the Alliance of Auto Makers. California Air Resources Board (CARB) fails California and the USA The Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEV) was intended to be a requirement for actual production, contrary to Board Member Dan Sperling's assertion that it's merely "technology forcing". It was not intended as a research program. It was intended to put real Zero Emission Vehicles into the hands of willing buyers, on the free market. Enough of them to make a real difference, 10% by 2003. Previous CARB weakness led to retreat after retreat, until now even the Board fails to remember its purpose. Part of the whittling-away of the program was the crushing of the battery Electric cars, based on auto company solemn promises in 2003 to actually build fuel cell cars. Even the few demonstration fuel cells, too few to make a difference, were just a sham they had no intention of honoring. Their already faint promises were not kept. Now CARB is formally releasing auto makers from even the simulation of compliance with the original ZEV mandate. The failure continues the mistakes of former CARB Chairman Alan Lloyd. Mr. Sperling, then, is not as knowledgeable as he is supposed by the Board that acquiesced in this latest destruction of the ZEV mandate. There is no longer need to be "technology-neutral", as CARB Chair Nichols and even opposition groups maintain; the technology HAS been tested, and we KNOW what works: 1997 EV1 with lead batteries from Panasonic Storage Battery Co., up to 110 miles at up to 80 mph; 1997 HondaEV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy PEVE, up to 140 miles at up to 80 mph; 1999 EV1 with NiMH batteries from GM-Ovonics, up to 160 miles (140 EPA certified) at up to 80 mph; 1997 Toyota RAV4-EV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy, up to 120 miles at up to 80 mph. Last sold in Nov., 2002, these are still running fine, even though Toyota has refused to sell replacement batteries; Various battery scooters, Neighborhood EVs, motorcycles and city cars. AND THAT'S IT. You don't see any fuel cell car in there, and there never will be, because fuel cell cars will never be offered for sale on the open market. If they ever were offered for sale at normal prices, buy about 10, and sell the components for a gain of 1000%! What's needed is a recognition that all the research and testing has already been done, and it's time for PRODUCTION. If these oil-free EVs had been improved each year, allowed to be owned and modified, with new models as people see them running, we would be in a much different world. The original vision of 1990 was valid, it was betrayed by intimidated, misguided or weak regulators. Slow charging at night is a boon, not a problem; an EV need not have a range of more than 200 miles, long-distance trips should be done via the airport or train station. So the points that must be raised (and CARB staff must answer): 1. ZEV IS NOT A RESEARCH PROGRAM. START PRODUCTION, BASED ON DEMAND. 2. THE ONLY WORKING ZEV IS BEV. START WITH SELLING BEV. Let's get rid of the fuel cell distraction, for now; if, as CARB members D'Adamo and Nichols claim, fuel cells are a thing of the future, let them stay there in the by-and-by until proven, and let's get started in the present doing the job CARB was paid to do. This disgraceful CARB decision to grant auto makers a 70% reduction in their solemn promises of already poor compliance amounts to fiddling while the Earth burns up, while auto companies are going in the WRONG direction, and while climate change is approaching the tipping point of no return. The general public, media and responible lawmakers must join together to enable CARB to do the job it's spending $750 million per year to perform, which is to move away from petroleum to viable ZEV technologies. CARB could buy and give away 7500 Tesla cars per year for the money it wastes on pretending to regulate the auto makers. If AAM are "self-regulating", why pay CARB? Recent studies by U.S.C., presented to CARB, show that children raised in proximity to freeways have signficantly more permanent lung damage during the critical year 12 through year 18 lung formation period than those raised farther away. NOx and SOx from vehicle emissions is unavoidable so long as people live in the midst of tailpipe emissions and refinery nightly discharges. CARB and its associated Regional Air Quality Boards must be brought to realize this issue, and act on it. Pleasant-sounding NOx is really anhydrous Nitrous Acid, which is Oxidized into anhydrous Nitric Acid by sunlight in the presence of Ozone. Nitric (or Nitrous) Acid burns permanent holes in kid's lungs. What's worth that? What oil company profit is worth that? SOx is just as destructive, forming ultimately anhydrous Sulfuric Acid, which breaks up delicate tissue to extract water, and then becomes concentrated Sulfuric Acid inside kids lungs. In the midst of the current fiscal and climate crisis, CARB's weak performance cannot be allowed to stand. Please join with friends, neighbors and groups to call CARB into question, to eviscerate its budget, and to require it to be responsive to the needs of the people instead of beholden to auto and oil company lobbyists. It's an election year, and this is the most important issue of our time. Doug Korthof, 562-430-2495 moderator of Electric_Vehicles_For_Sale Yahoo group, started in 2003 when CARB killed the Electric car the LAST time. Please join this group to give lobbying more clout; SealBeach.org Powering a plug-in car with solar power; YouTube.com/liveoilfree Videos of driving an EV and CARB intransigence; DrivingTheFuture.com How EV-PV works, helping the grid and showing a vision of America's clean energy future.     EV1 RIDES AGAIN!, briefly, until GM forbade it to be shown again on the street. Why would GM force a Cease and Desist on this revived clean car?     Videolog of EV videos   Print off Letter to California Air Resources Board ("CARB"), mail it or fax it in Voice of Reality The eclectic blog of Doug Korthof: what the paid-off media won't talk about. California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted on Mar. 27, 2008, to release the Auto Alliance from their Mar., 2003 promise to sell 25,000 fuel cell cars between 2012 and 2014. They had agreed to go back to battery EVs if fuel cells don't work. Now, they are breaking their promise. Fuel cells failed, they now agree, but they still refuse to build proven, successful EVs. Join the Yahoo group and help reverse CARB's killing the Electric car all over again.     Take the pledge: no new car until plug-ins are for sale!     Write a letter to CARB, to pols, or to the press (letter-writing program addresses the letter, starts you off with a few ideas, and helps you print it out so you can mail or fax it to the addressee). CARB takes taxpayers' money under false pretenses of cleaning up mobile pollution, but they follow the orders of the Alliance of Auto Makers. California Air Resources Board (CARB) fails California and the USA The Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEV) was intended to be a requirement for actual production, contrary to Board Member Dan Sperling's assertion that it's merely "technology forcing". It was not intended as a research program. It was intended to put real Zero Emission Vehicles into the hands of willing buyers, on the free market. Enough of them to make a real difference, 10% by 2003. Previous CARB weakness led to retreat after retreat, until now even the Board fails to remember its purpose. Part of the whittling-away of the program was the crushing of the battery Electric cars, based on auto company solemn promises in 2003 to actually build fuel cell cars. Even the few demonstration fuel cells, too few to make a difference, were just a sham they had no intention of honoring. Their already faint promises were not kept. Now CARB is formally releasing auto makers from even the simulation of compliance with the original ZEV mandate. The failure continues the mistakes of former CARB Chairman Alan Lloyd. Mr. Sperling, then, is not as knowledgeable as he is supposed by the Board that acquiesced in this latest destruction of the ZEV mandate. There is no longer need to be "technology-neutral", as CARB Chair Nichols and even opposition groups maintain; the technology HAS been tested, and we KNOW what works: 1997 EV1 with lead batteries from Panasonic Storage Battery Co., up to 110 miles at up to 80 mph; 1997 HondaEV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy PEVE, up to 140 miles at up to 80 mph; 1999 EV1 with NiMH batteries from GM-Ovonics, up to 160 miles (140 EPA certified) at up to 80 mph; 1997 Toyota RAV4-EV with NiMH batteries from Panasonic Energy, up to 120 miles at up to 80 mph. Last sold in Nov., 2002, these are still running fine, even though Toyota has refused to sell replacement batteries; Various battery scooters, Neighborhood EVs, motorcycles and city cars. AND THAT'S IT. You don't see any fuel cell car in there, and there never will be, because fuel cell cars will never be offered for sale on the open market. If they ever were offered for sale at normal prices, buy about 10, and sell the components for a gain of 1000%! What's needed is a recognition that all the research and testing has already been done, and it's time for PRODUCTION. If these oil-free EVs had been improved each year, allowed to be owned and modified, with new models as people see them running, we would be in a much different world. The original vision of 1990 was valid, it was betrayed by intimidated, misguided or weak regulators. Slow charging at night is a boon, not a problem; an EV need not have a range of more than 200 miles, long-distance trips should be done via the airport or train station. So the points that must be raised (and CARB staff must answer): 1. ZEV IS NOT A RESEARCH PROGRAM. START PRODUCTION, BASED ON DEMAND. 2. THE ONLY WORKING ZEV IS BEV. START WITH SELLING BEV. Let's get rid of the fuel cell distraction, for now; if, as CARB members D'Adamo and Nichols claim, fuel cells are a thing of the future, let them stay there in the by-and-by until proven, and let's get started in the present doing the job CARB was paid to do. This disgraceful CARB decision to grant auto makers a 70% reduction in their solemn promises of already poor compliance amounts to fiddling while the Earth burns up, while auto companies are going in the WRONG direction, and while climate change is approaching the tipping point of no return. The general public, media and responible lawmakers must join together to enable CARB to do the job it's spending $750 million per year to perform, which is to move away from petroleum to viable ZEV technologies. CARB could buy and give away 7500 Tesla cars per year for the money it wastes on pretending to regulate the auto makers. If AAM are "self-regulating", why pay CARB? Recent studies by U.S.C., presented to CARB, show that children raised in proximity to freeways have signficantly more permanent lung damage during the critical year 12 through year 18 lung formation period than those raised farther away. NOx and SOx from vehicle emissions is unavoidable so long as people live in the midst of tailpipe emissions and refinery nightly discharges. CARB and its associated Regional Air Quality Boards must be brought to realize this issue, and act on it. Pleasant-sounding NOx is really anhydrous Nitrous Acid, which is Oxidized into anhydrous Nitric Acid by sunlight in the presence of Ozone. Nitric (or Nitrous) Acid burns permanent holes in kid's lungs. What's worth that? What oil company profit is worth that? SOx is just as destructive, forming ultimately anhydrous Sulfuric Acid, which breaks up delicate tissue to extract water, and then becomes concentrated Sulfuric Acid inside kids lungs. In the midst of the current fiscal and climate crisis, CARB's weak performance cannot be allowed to stand. Please join with friends, neighbors and groups to call CARB into question, to eviscerate its budget, and to require it to be responsive to the needs of the people instead of beholden to auto and oil company lobbyists. It's an election year, and this is the most important issue of our time. Doug Korthof, 562-430-2495 moderator of Electric_Vehicles_For_Sale Yahoo group, started in 2003 when CARB killed the Electric car the LAST time. Please join this group to give lobbying more clout; SealBeach.org Powering a plug-in car with solar power; YouTube.com/liveoilfree Videos of driving an EV and CARB intransigence; DrivingTheFuture.com