On Monday, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler and Toyota said they were intervening on the side of the Trump Administration in its fight with California over that states’ right to set its own emissions policy. Since the 1960’s California has set its own emissions policies, and has a specific allowance to…
During a fund-raising trip to California, President Trump issued a series of Tweets announcing the Trump Administration is “revoking California’s Federal Waiver on emissions”. He promised this will decrease car prices, make cars much safer, and increase JOBS for auto-workers. To do this his Administration is flouting over 50 years…
The Trump Administration has broken off negotiations with California over vehicle emission standards and clean air rules. Since before the EPA existed, California has regulated clean air standards, with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) overseeing the process. CARB’s efforts have resulted not only in the rise of electric vehicles,…
Before the VW Group follows through on their promise of electric car leadership by 2018, VW has to face an EPA and California investigation over evasion of emissions laws. Within minutes of publishing my previous piece saying the VW Group may be in the opening stanza’s of an electric vehicle symphony,…
A couple weeks ago when Hyundai announced they’d begun shipping the Hyundai Tuscon Fuel Cell Vehicle to California, a couple items in their press release clued me in that this was just a Compliance Car move (see post on examiner.com for writeup). Now, in a post on Wards Auto, Byung…
Road & Track Magazine has named the Fiat 500e the “Best Electric Car of 2013.” Which begs the question of why is Fiat making such a good electric car, but building it in such limited quantities? “It is deeply satisfying that Road & Track editors are so taken with the…
Several good milestones were reached in the world of Tesla Motors. The first expansion of the Supercharger network began with construction of stations on the East Coast. That’s a good milestone, however the company seems to be behind original projections for the network in California. That the lawsuit from the…
Here in California we passed a law requiring a certain percentage of automobile sales from each manufacturer to be zero emissions vehicles, in order for the manufacturer to continue doing business in California. That simple law has been twisted around in many ways until now it is a complicated mess…
California continues to lead the nation in developing standards for advanced clean, zero emissions, vehicles from cars up to big trucks. Today the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed new regulations that could help shape the future of the automotive industry. Previous era’s of California’s clean air regulations have both made California’s air cleaner, and have…
