Amping Up the Drive to Reduce Gasoline Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Cars and Trucks

Huffington Post  27 November 2010

A Decade of Lessons from the 2010 L.A. Auto Show and the California Clean Cars Program

Electric vehicles (EVs) got all the buzz at the L.A. Auto Show -- and rightly so. The Chevy volt won the Green Car of the Year Award, the Nissan Leaf was second, and four of the top five cars being considered for the award were electrics. But, the real news and the important policy lesson to be learned from the L.A. Auto Show is in the scope of activity and competition in the electric vehicle product space. Electric vehicles were such a big draw at this Auto Show because California's clean car standards played a key role in making them possible.  Read more