First Name | George |
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Last Name | Rasko |
Email Address | jurgis_sj@yahoo.com |
Affiliation | Electrical Engineer |
Subject | Don't Pick Favorites |
Comment | Dear Board Memebers, I am distress to read about some of the biases built into your reports and actions. Specifically: 1. including refueling time as an criteria means that you have already chosen liquid fuels as the answer, no matter what the question is. 2. your comments about battery electric vehicles are based on your (wrong) personal assessments of the marketplace, rather than reality. 3. The hybrid is getting all the perks right now, blocking many future incentives My requests for your consideration against the above are: 1. if refueling time is to be a criteria, then equal weight needs to be given to fueling infrastructure. Example: hydrogen may be able to put energy into a vehicle quickly, but there is no hydrogen distribution system presently in California or the country. Electricity is literally everywhere right now. 2. the backlog of orders for Tesla Motors new car obviates the "customer accceptance" comments of your report section 3.2. Fundamentally, the customer has not been given a chance to own and operate an electric car. The "customer" can only accept what the marketplace offers. Previous "lease only, and then we take it back" products can't be taken seriously. 3. Allowing hybrids special access to carpool lanes has already filled them up in some places like Virginia. How can you offer an incentive like that to ZEV owner, when the incentive will be worthless because the HOV lanes will be in "hybrid gridlock"? |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2007-05-11 16:44:50 |
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