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The California
Air Resources Board (CARB or the Board) staff invite you to participate
in a public workshop to provide input on the development of the Advanced
Clean Cars II (ACC II) regulations. The ACC II regulations will seek to
reduce criteria and greenhouse gas emissions from new light- and
medium-duty vehicles beyond the 2025 model year, and increase the number
of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) for sale. Building on the September 2020
workshop, staff will present updated analyses and proposals to amend the
Low Emission Vehicle (or LEV IV) Regulation to reduce criteria pollutant
emissions and preliminary proposals to amend the ZEV Regulation. Staff
will also present updates on projections of costs for future ZEV
technologies and proposed measures to ensure ZEV durability and
serviceability.
This public workshop will be held on GoToWebinar.
Interested parties must register to participate. Details are as follows:
Date:
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Time: 9:00 a.m. –
1:00 p.m.
Location: GoToWebinar
Staff request stakeholder comments following the workshop
be submitted to cleancars@arb.ca.gov by June 11, 2021.
Background
In 2012, CARB adopted a set of regulations to control
emissions from passenger vehicles, collectively called Advanced Clean
Cars (ACC). Advanced Clean Cars combined the control of smog-causing
(criteria) pollutants and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into a single
coordinated package of regulations through 2025 model year vehicles: the
Low-Emission Vehicle III regulation for criteria (LEV III Criteria) and
GHG (LEV III GHG) emissions, and a technology forcing Zero Emission
Vehicle (ZEV) Regulation.
A California midterm review of the standards was presented
to the Board in March 2017. At that time, the Board also directed staff
to begin working on post-2025 model year vehicle regulations. Since the
midterm review, staff have continued to research additional measures to
reduce air pollution from light-duty and medium-duty vehicles.
Additionally, in September 2020, Governor Newsom signed Executive Order N-79-20 which
established a goal that 100 percent of California sales of new passenger
car and trucks be zero-emission by 2035 and directed CARB to develop and
propose regulations toward this goal. Furthermore, CARB’s 2020 Mobile
Source Strategy illustrates that an aggressive deployment of ZEVs will be
needed for the State to meet federal air quality requirements and the
State’s climate change targets.
Contact
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please
contact cleancars@arb.ca.gov. If you wish to
receive information regarding the Advanced Clean Cars II regulations,
please subscribe at the Advanced Clean Cars website.
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