Plugin 2010: Opening Plenary Session

Posted by: Max Dunn on July 27, 2010 08:12:22

Moderator: Mark Duvall, Director, Electric Transportation and Energy Storage, Electric Power Research Institute

  • Sam Liccardo, Council Member, City of San Jose
  • Chris Johns, President, Pacific Gas & Electric Company
  • Brad Wagenknecht, Napa County Supervisor & 
    Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board Chairperson
  • Lee Slezak, Program Manager, Vehicle Technologies Program, 
    U.S. Department of Energy
  • Carlos Tavares, Executive Vice President, Nissan Motor Co. Limited
  • Joel Ewanick, GM’s vice president of U.S. marketing
  • Dan Sperling, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, 
    University of California, Davis

Chris Johns, PG&E

  • 26% of all new hybrids were registered in California even though CA has only 12% of the population
  • Top 3 Prius dealerships are: Palo Alto, Berkeley, Marin
  • If 70% of vehicles were EVs and plugged in during peak times, 160 new power plants would need to be built. However, if they are charged at night, no new power plants would need to be built

Lee Slezak, DOE

  • Home charging is key to building out EV charging infrastructure
  • Public charging will be needed, but it is expensive if not well utilized and needs to be expansive to cover full driving patterns

Carlos Tavares, Nissan

  • Leaf will come to market in December
  • Will match Volt and come with a 8-year 100,000 mile battery warranty
  • 55 MPH on freeway on a hot day with A/C on will give about 70 mile range
  • 50,000 units of battery capacity today, 150,000 units in 2012 in Smryna, TN
  • Currently have 17,000 reservations

Joel Ewanick, GM

  • GetMyVolt.com just came online to order Chevy Volt.
  • Volt price is $41,000. Includes dealer destination charges of $700, navigation system and NavStar. Lease price of $350/month

Dan Sperling, UCD and CARB

  • Zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) program has led a tortured life but has been an instrumental program in getting us to where we are now
  • Current ZEV program very complicated. In summary, 2012-2014 requires 25,000 or variations. in 2015-1017 it is roughly doubled.
  • ZEV problem will be simplified by stripping out silver and bronze categories and
  • ZEV will focus on GHG rather than local air quality since cars have become so clean that it is hard to make pollution improvements.
  • Goal is to have 10-20% of vehicles to be ZEV by 2025.
Revised on July 27, 2010 10:56:57 by Max Dunn ()