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10 years after the introduction of electric vehicles in
Calirfornia, it is still almost impossible to buy one at a decent
price. We are being held hostage by auto manufacturers who prefer
to sell SUVs and trucks rather than commercialize electric
vehicles. I encourage CARB not to be an accomplice of this
practice and help consumers rather than Detroit corporate
interests.

The number of Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) proposed by CARB staff
will automakers to backslide on their 2003 agreement and require
just 2,500 true ZEVs from 2012 to 2014. Startups alone plan to
introduce this many ZEVs; surely the major automakers can do
better and not manipulate the system with credits. I ask that: (1)
you require the full 25,000 ZEVs between 2012 and 2014 that the
automakers lobbied for and agreed to in 2003; (2) that you
implement a level playing field between all type sof ZEVs to get
clean cars on the roads of Califorania; and (3) provide incentives
for plug-in hybrids by taking from the dirtiest cars, not the
cleanest ones.