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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