“This segment of SUVs is where the demand — what people want — and the efficiency of vehicles meet,” said Gil Tal, who heads the Electric Vehicle …

“Scott Hardman, assistant director of the EV Research Center, argued during a CARB seminar today that California officials need to dedicate more resources to educating drivers. ‘We’re spending billions of dollars on infrastructure and incentives, but we’re spending very little on actually educating people and even making them aware of those programs,’ he said.”

“In an interview with the HPR, University of California Davis professor Dan Sperling noted that these environmental standards were even more important than any economic incentives advocated for by the administration. The standards set clear benchmarks for where the U.S. wanted to be and signaled to the auto industry how the administration wished to see car manufacturing change.”