CARB Sees Hybrids as Bridge to Next-Generation EVs

California Air Resources Board Chief Deputy Executive Officer Tom Cackette says the agency sees today’s hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) as bridging technology that will contribute to a long-range target to develop a new generation of pure electric vehicles (EVs).

Cackett explains CARB is seeking approval of regulations that give different levels of emissions credit for vehicles relative to their contribution to development of technology that will ...