Clean Car Technologies -- Off-the-Shelf and on the Road Today -- Will Help Meet California's Global Warming Emissions Standard
--| Technologies on Display at Air Resources Board Hearing |
As the California Air Resources Board deliberates on the world's first vehicle emissions standard to reduce global warming pollution, clean vehicle technologies that will play a significant role in helping car companies achieve the standard are already onboard many of today's vehicles. A selection of these vehicles, and experts who can discuss the technologies and their pollution reduction potential, will be available to the media at the start of the Air Resources Board hearing in Los Angeles.
WHAT: Display of today's clean vehicle technologies that can
reduce global warming pollution
-- 2004 Nissan Murano with continuously variable transmission
(CVT)
-- 2004 Audi TT with six-speed automatic transmission with direct
shift gearbox
-- 2005 Dodge Magnum 5.7L HEMI with cylinder deactivation
-- 2004 Acura RSX with i-VTEC engine
-- 2004 Toyota Prius hybrid electric vehicle
WHEN: Thursday, September 23, 8:30 a.m. - Noon
WHERE: Sheraton Gateway Hotel (site of California Air Resources
Board hearing to determine California's vehicle global warming
emission standards), 6101 W. Century Blvd. Los Angeles.
Vehicles will be on display on service road (Avion) next to
hearing room.
WHO:
-- Louise Bedsworth, Union of Concerned Scientists
-- John DeCicco, Environmental Defense
-- Roland Hwang, Natural Resources Defense Council
The California Clean Cars Campaign is a project of the state's leading health, environmental and public interest groups working to ensure successful implementation of California's law to cut vehicle global warming pollution. The law, Assembly Bill 1493, directs the California Air Resources Board to adopt regulations that require carmakers to reduce global warming emissions from new passenger cars and light trucks beginning in 2009. For more information please visit calcleancars.org.