7/2/2023 0 Comments Electric don quixote![]() ![]() We don't have a secret battery in the basement, and we're not dragging our feet. "We're simply unable to provide a vehicle that provides the range that is acceptable to the customers out there, or anywhere else in the U.S., at a price that's remotely affordable. "You cannot just mandate that it work," says Trotman of Ford, which has an experimental electric van called Ecostar. ![]() But unless the politicians plan to reinvent physics, don't expect to see many electric cars on the roads come 1998. Other states, including New York, are thinking of following California's lead. The 1998 rule did, however, manage to exclude that Hollywood favorite, the Mercedes. Close to 2 million new vehicles are sold in California in a good year, and most big American and Japanese companies are covered by the rules. This climbs to 5% in 2001 and to 10% in 2003. In 1990 California told carmakers that by 1998, 2% of their unit sales in the state must be zero-emission vehicles-that means electric cars, since they're the only zero-emission vehicles conceivable. ![]()
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