Sacramento/Stanford Events; New Photos at CalCars
Sep 26, 2006 (From the CalCars-News archive)

This week, Ron Gremban and I and many advocates of electric
transportation solutions will all be in Sacramento for the important
California Air Resources Board's ZEV Technology Symposium. Here the
ARB re-evaluates the basis for its strategies to move toward Zero
Emissions Vehicles. It started today with introductions and a day on
hydrogen; tomorrow it wraps up Hydrogen, then moves on to updates
from DaimlerChrysler, Honda, Nissan and Toyota. Tuesday
afternoon-Wednesday afternoon is a survey of Battery Technology.
Wednesday ends with topics on Battery Electric and Plug-in Hybrid
Electric Vehicles. More information on the event and PDFs of most of
the presentations are available now, starting from
<http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/zevprog/symposium/symposium.htm>, where
you'll also find a link to live webcasts of the event.

A number of people from Plug In America and the Electric Auto
Association, as well as two presentations on Prius Conversions (one
by EnergyCS, one by Sacramento Municipal Utility District) come near
the end of day three (Wednesday). CalCars had submitted proposed
testimony, but our submission was not accepted. After much
back-and-forth, we've been promised a spot at the start of the final
Open Comment period. You can see our 8-pages for our testimony at
<http://www.calcars.org/calcars-arb-zev-kramer.pdf>. We address
technical and experiential topics that we don't expect others will cover.

Also Tuesday, John Davi of CalCars will appear along with JB Straubel
of Tesla Motors at Stanford. (This event when announced included my
participation, but I can't be in two places at once.)

Details on both events at <http://www.calcars.org/events.html>.

We've augmented our photos section of the CalCars website, now
divided into a "Best of" page, then "People & Places," "PHEV Tech,"
"Scenic Shots" and "PHEVs in D.C." This replaces our attempt at a
photoblog. Media can download high-resolution versions of most photos.

We're also taking this opportunity to correct the report in the
Christian Science Monitor (see
<http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/526.html>) that my Prius has
gotten a solar rooftop....CSM will provide a print and online correction.

This is also an exciting week in Sacramento and globally)for another
reason, with the expected signing into law by the Governor of the
much-lauded, pioneering AB32, The California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006.