West Coast Clean Transit Corridor Initiative
By 2025, the study proposes installing 27 electric charging sites for medium-duty electric vehicles at approximately 50-mile intervals along I-5.
Great Strides Towards Clean Energy Independence!!
Drifting and Screaming
Ford releases an amazing electric Mustang that pushes the boundaries for electric vehicles (EV). This prototype was designed with 3 electric motors powering the front wheels and 4 electric motors powering the back wheels. The power can be transferred to the front, the back or in between. This baby has 1400 HP and was specially designed for drifting in road courses and drag racing. Between this prototype and the earlier Cobra Jet 1400, engineers have already discovered ways to improve braking, electrical controls and battery chemistry. This is not the Ford I grew up with….can’t wait to see their SUV scheduled for release Q4 2020 with 57kW on board storage.
Technologies and Breakthroughs
Cheaper and Lighter Next Generation Electric Vehicles Coming
California’s Clean-Vehicle Mandate
California adopted the world’s first regulation that forces manufacturers to ramp up sales of zero-emission trucks and buses over the next 15 years.
The requirements begin in 2024. By 2035, 55% of delivery vans and large pickups, 75% of commercial trucks such as school buses and garbage trucks and 40% of the big rigs sold in California must be zero emission.
An estimated 300,000 trucks powered by electricity or hydrogen must be on California roads by 2035 and 100,000 by 2030, under the standards unanimously approved by the state’s top clean-air enforcers.
Several years in the making, the mandate is aimed at cleaning up diesel big rigs, delivery vans, school buses and other large vehicles that are pumping out pollution on California’s roads. Reducing truck exhaust is essential for ensuring that the state’s urban areas, particularly in the Los Angeles basin, meet health standards for smog and soot.
“It is clear this is the first of its kind in the world,” said Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols. “It’s part of a long line of groundbreaking actions that this board has taken to protect our air. But it is a very important one given its particular relevance for low income and communities of color.”