First Name | Lucson |
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Last Name | Pierre-Charles |
Email Address | lucsonpierre@hotmail.com |
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Subject | Make ZEV the way of the future |
Comment | Please keep ZEV Regulation alive. ZEV is the way to go. "California succeeded in getting thousands of cars on their streets (leased not sold), but then when ARB gutted the ZEV mandate in 2003 all the automakers took their electric cars back and crushed them. Signifying the biggest idiot move by ARB that they have ever done. Those cars, one of them being the EV1 by General Motors, traveled well over 100 miles on a charge. The EV1 having the distinction of being the best vehicle GM ever made. An electric vehicle designed to be so from the ground up, it could get 160 miles on a charge with its NiMH battery pack. The RAV4 EV, a conversion of the RAV4 gasoline car, made to comply with the ZEV mandate could get 130 miles to a charge on Panasonic NiMH batteries. Batteries that were in essence 1990s technology. Panasonic had announced in 2003, or there abouts, that it had made a 30% reduction in weight and increased the energy density of its NiMH batteries which would have given it something like 170 miles range, and if those batteries were to be used in the true EV the EV1, its range would have been somewhere around 208 miles per charge." ZEV is the way of the future. Lucson Pierre-Charles Maryland |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2008-03-17 11:45:27 |
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