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I want to thank you and the Air Resources Board and staff for
allowing us to say a few words today.

Temsa North America was established in the US in 2009 and has
become one of the top 4 OEM manufacturers of Motorcoaches in the
industry today. We manufacture and currently sell four different
sized vehicles (TS30, TS35, TS45 & TS45EV). We have various
locations across the US, and I am here today from our facility in
Burlingame CA.

As I stated above, we currently have four different coach options
for our customers with one of those options being the TS45EV
Electric vehicle. We have just recently finalized all testing and
are using this vehicle in San Fran area now for demo trials with
our customers. We support the transition to EV down the road, but
we also understand all the challenges this will be to ultimately
get there. From infrastructure issues to range of the coach
challenges etc. 


We have only been using one engine manufacturer for our three size
units we currently sell here in the states. Cummins, as the engine
manufacturer, is one of the options currently available in the US.


TNA currently represents about 15-20% market share to the industry
today and about 25% of our sales currently are sold here in CA.
Based on those figures and rising demand for our mid to full size
units Temsa will be drastically affected based on the number of
carb compliant engines that have been assigned from allocations
somehow from Cummins. The new CARB compliant engines will not even
be available before 2026. Temsa will not be able to meet the
demands of our customers in CA so this will also dramatically
affect them with their contracts and needs. Based on the stated
above comments we believe Temsa will not have sales of more than
100 coaches based on new regulations. So again, not only affecting
Temsa but the customers in CA who purchase directly from Temsa.


This is a very brief summary of who we are at Temsa, and we are
here today to ask for the opportunity to continue to work with CARB
to come up with a successful solution to all of the issues we are
addressing here today. We support the board zero emission goals set
for heavy duty vehicles for 2045 and as Temsa being a global
supplier we are always actively striving to achieve these types of
goals. But in order to do this we need time and the ability to work
closely with the board to achieve these types of timeframes and
goals.

Thank you for the opportunity to be heard here today and we look
forward to any further questions you may have. 


Best Regards,
Randy Angell