Comment & Debate
John O’Dell. “Power Crisis Is Weapon in Electric Car Debate”. 19 Jan. 2001 – General Motors Corp., the company that once championed electric cars, plans to use California’s energy crisis as ammunition in a renewed attack next week on the state’s already watered-down zero-emissions vehicle rules.
GM’s top energy executive said in an interview this week that the company will argue to the California Air Resources Board on Thursday that it would be folly in the midst of an electricity shortage to require auto makers to produce vehicles that must draw from the state’s maxed-out power grid.