Zero-emission vehicles: sustainable for all?

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Representatives of an eight-state partnership to support the market for zero-emission vehicles joined California’s Air Resources Board in Diamond Bar on Thursday. The coalition announced that nation-wide sales have surpassed the quarter-million mark with a goal of 3.3 million set.

Industry executives and manufacturers alike are celebrating higher sales, but affordability and availability in low-income areas is still a largely untouched concern. Many of California’s most polluted regions are also some of the poorest. Even with rebates and tax incentives, prices must go down for California to hit the 1.5 million vehicle mark in 10 years proposed by Governor Jerry Brown.