GOVERNOR SIGNS CLEAN VEHICLE BILL

September 23, 2014 (Sacramento)-- Capping off National Drive Electric Week, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. has signed half a dozen bills to strengthen California's best-in-the-nation electric vehicle market.

These include bills that will:

• Grant free or reduced-rates in high-occupancy toll lanes to clean air vehicles.
• Increase the number of clean air vehicles that may be allowed in high-occupancy vehicle lanes, regardless of how many people are in them.
• Require commercial property owners and residential landlords to allow renters to install electric vehicle chargers
• Provide incentives to increase availability of zero-emission vehicles in low-income communities

The Governor’s actions build on the state's efforts to help California's electric vehicle market grow, including prior actions by the Governor to establish a target of 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on the road in California by 2025.



California accounts for 40 percent of the nation's plug-in electric vehicle sales and earlier this month, surpassed 100,000 plug-in electric vehicles sold.