To: Mary Nichols, California Air Resources Board Chair

Putting the brakes on clean vehicles in California? No way!

I want more zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) on the road and support strong policies, like the ZEV Mandate, that will lead to at least 1.5 million ZEVs on California’s roads by 2025.

By accelerating the transition to electric vehicles, we can clean up our air and improve public health, especially in our most polluted communities, reduce global warming pollution, save Californians money at the pump, and stimulate economic growth.

Why is this important?

The impacts of climate change are now playing out in California in real time: Record drought. Intense wildfires engulfing numerous areas of the state. More than 66 million dead trees in the southern Sierra Nevada.

The single largest source of the pollution causing climate change in California? The gas-powered cars, trucks and buses that we drive every day.

Yet powerful forces in the auto and petroleum industries are working overtime to keep us addicted to dirty fossil fuels. And their pressure is intensifying ahead of a critical decision about meeting California’s game-changing electric vehicle goal.

Transitioning to clean electric vehicles means giving Californians a healthier planet, cleaner air to breathe and savings the pump.

That’s why California established a pivotal goal to put 1.5 million electric vehicles on the road by 2025. Yet special interests are working relentlessly to put the brakes on California’s electric vehicle goal – just as we need to accelerate to a clean vehicle future.

The Air Resources Board will decide the future of this electric vehicle goal this fall. Leaders at the Air Resources Board need to hear that Californians want them to resist pressure from special interests and accelerate the growth of clean vehicles.

By upholding and meeting this goal, California can charge ahead to a cleaner, healthier future for all Californians.

Tell the Air Resources Board that California should stay in the driver’s seat of the clean vehicle revolution!