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California’s Ozone Reduction Strategy for Light-Duty Vehicles
An Economic Assessment
This report is a summary of MR-695, California’s Ozone-Reduction Strategy for Light-Duty Vehicles: Direct Costs, Direct Emission Effects, and Market Responses. Economic costs and environmental effects are analyzed for California’s multi-pronged strategy for reducing emissions from passenger cars and light-duty trucks, vehicles that are believed to account for a substantial fraction of ozone-producing emissions across the state. The study analyzes costs, emissions effects, effects on vehicle markets, and the distribution of costs for regulations on new gasoline-powered vehicles, others affecting both new and existing gasoline-powered vehicles, and also the extremely controversial zero-emission vehicle mandate. The study considers policy choice in the face of extreme uncertainty about the effects of several policy elements, particularly the scrappage program, enhanced vehicle inspection and maintenance, on-board emission diagnostic systems, and the zero-emission vehicle mandate. The zero-emission vehicle mandate poses major economic and environmental risks but there are also major risks to repealing the mandate altogether. The study concludes by suggesting principles for making zero-emission vehicle policy in the face of extreme uncertainty about the development of technology for battery-powered electric vehicles and the future effectiveness of policies to control emissions from gasoline vehicles.
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Contents
Chapter 1:
Issues, Background, and Methods
Chapter 2:
Costs and Benefits of California’s Light-Duty Vehicle Strategy
Chapter 3:
Guidelines for Using Disparate Information to Make Policy Decisions
Chapter 4:
What Does Economic Analysis Suggest About ZEV Policy?
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