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Dear CARB:

CARB has proposed changing its ZEV credit system to greatly benefit
possible hydrogen vehicles at the expense of existing electric
vehicles
(http://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/2013/zev2013/zev201315daynotice.pdf).
 This comment is presented under the public comment opportunity
(http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bcsubform.php?listname=zev2013&comm_period=1).
 I believe hydrogen is a terrible way to go, and BEVs are the only
way to go, and I encourage you to review the below lists and
recognize the tremendous advantages of BEVs over hydrogen.

1.  Hydrogen is very dangerous to handle.
2.  Hydrogen requires a completely new infrastructure at tremendous
cost.
3.  Hydrogen is difficult to capture.
4.  Hydrogen is extremely dangerous to the crucial ozone layer.
5.  Hydrogen requires very expensive fuel cells.
6.  One means of producing hydrogen is by stripping it from carbon
fuels in a process that requires energy and releases carbon
dioxide.
7.  The other means of producing hydrogen is the separate it from
water in a process that is at best 70% efficient.
8.  Hydrogen is used only in fuel cells that are at best 50%
efficient (thereby yielding at best approximately 33% efficiency).
9.  Fuel cells produce water vapor which is a green house gas.
10. Hydrogen infrastructure and vehicles are barely in existence
and will require extreme taxpayer outlays to support it.

1.  BEVs exist now at a cost that beats any other vehicle total
cost of ownership.
2.  BEVs approach 90% efficiency in the use of electricity.
3.  BEVs can directly utilize renewable energy.
4.  BEVs can bring greater efficiency to the grid and encourage
more renewable energy sources by fueling at night.
5.  BEVs can and will provide smoothing and energy storage to the
grid which is huge advantage to the continued development of
renewable energy.
6.  BEV technology is already improving in efficiency and cost at a
rate that hydrogen could never compete with even at its mythical
best.
7.  BEV power infrastructure for vast adoption already exists.
8.  BEVs are the safest possible form of transportation.
9.  BEV public acceptance is already being achieved at great
speed.
10. There is already competition for commercial sale of BEVs such
that the need for additional taxpayer monies to stimulate adoption
is greatly reduced.

I urge CARB to abandon its misguided proposals to change its ZEV
credit system.

Thanks.