California's ZEV Update "Is it Alive?"
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Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger advocates creation of hydrogen highway and supports state's new carbon dioxide law

What's the status of California's once-ambitious ZEV mandate? How many fuel cell cars will the major OEMs have to build between now and 2008? How many of PZEVs will be sold in the Golden State in 2004 and what is newly-elected governor Arnold Schwartzenegger's attitude towards the state's groundbreaking, but "vague" greenhouse gas law?

Those are just some of the major questions posed and answered by California Air Resources Board chairman Dr. Alan Lloyd during his twenty-minute address at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. on January 28th. The event was organized by JITI and the Japan Automobile Standards Internationalization Center to highlight the progress that's been made in introducing cleaner, more environmentally-responsible vehicles to the marketplace, nearly all of them from two Japanese automakers; Toyota and Honda.

In addition to Lloyd, on hand representing the US EPA was the director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Margo Oge. Presenting for the Japanese ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport was Kanji Nakayama. From Waseda University was Professor Yasuhiro Daisho. In the coming weeks, EV World will publish their remarks and those of other presenters at the all-day conference. We wish to express our thanks to Japan International Transportation Institute and the Japan Automobile Standards Internationalization Center for providing EV World with the audio of the event; and to David Goldstein, who represented us, for his diligence and persistence in getting us access to this material.


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