Stop Limiting Electric Vehicles
A group spearheaded by the local automobile dealership EnVironmental Motors in Glendale, California is petitioning the Federal government to create a new vehicle classification. The Medium Speed Vehicle (MSV) Classification. Currently, the federal government limits electric cars capable of going 35-40mph to 25mph. Help us create the MSV class so these cars can be driven on more roads by more people to help offset the tons of carbon released into the air by gasoline vehicles.
While more Americans are seeking new transportation technology that is clean, green and electric, this new category could result in a five- to ten-fold increase of affordable (under $20K) zero-emission vehicles being driven on our nation's roads today.
Modern Electric Vehicles capable of going 35 to 40 miles per hour are currently available for sale, yet they are limited by Federal low speed vehicle (LSV) regulations to 25 miles per hour. People driving in Montana and Washington have modified these zero-emission vehicles to travel at 35 miles per hour under new state laws that permit a faster speed. That speed is opening up the market in those states as people find the new speed works for local trips and their second car uses.
As a recognized business offering consumers the option of driving 100% electric cars, EnVironmental Motors has become the lead sponsor to help formulate a new Medium Speed Electric Vehicle (MSEV) classification. As part of a joint effort with The MSEV Coalition consisting of at least eleven Electric Vehicle manufacturers and numerous advocates, the group recently submitted letters of request to The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for rulemaking review.
These same vehicles are available throughout America, although our federal law has not been updated to reflect the latest innovations in transportation technology. Many customers are happy to have this choice available to them for all their local driving, as the actual energy costs are about 2-3 cents per mile.
Per Santa Monica Fleet Superintendent Rick Sikes, "We could replace more than 10% of our fleet with MSEVs, limited to 35 mph, without a decrease in service or operator acceptance."
EnVironmental Motors sells the ZENN luxury Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) which comes equipped with a solid aluminum alloy frame used for highway cars in Europe, along with a robust AC drive motor, heater and option for air conditioning. The ZENN is one of several cars that can satisfy the need for a zero emission 35mph second car right away - once the Federal Government removes the legal obstacles.
This is the natural progression for electric vehicles from golf carts at 15 mph to NEVs at 25 to around town cars at 35 mph. This would be easiest, fastest and most affordable way to get zero emissions vehicle on our streets says Russell Sydney, Coordinator for the Coalition.
To join the efforts and support the greening of our city streets, or for more information about the Medium Speed Electric Vehicle Coalition, call 310.450.7419 or email: Main@sustainableclub.org. For anyone who would like to learn more or enjoy a truly ZENN experience (the name ZENN is an acronym for Zero Emission No Noise), visit www.EnVironmentalMotors.com or contact EnVironmental Motors directly at 818.244.MYEV to schedule a test drive appointment.
A group spearheaded by the local automobile dealership EnVironmental Motors in Glendale, California is petitioning the Federal government to create a new vehicle classification. The Medium Speed Vehicle (MSV) Classification. Currently, the federal government limits electric cars capable of going 35-40mph to 25mph. Help us create the MSV class so these cars can be driven on more roads by more people to help offset the tons of carbon released into the air by gasoline vehicles.
While more Americans are seeking new transportation technology that is clean, green and electric, this new category could result in a five- to ten-fold increase of affordable (under $20K) zero-emission vehicles being driven on our nation's roads today.
Modern Electric Vehicles capable of going 35 to 40 miles per hour are currently available for sale, yet they are limited by Federal low speed vehicle (LSV) regulations to 25 miles per hour. People driving in Montana and Washington have modified these zero-emission vehicles to travel at 35 miles per hour under new state laws that permit a faster speed. That speed is opening up the market in those states as people find the new speed works for local trips and their second car uses.
As a recognized business offering consumers the option of driving 100% electric cars, EnVironmental Motors has become the lead sponsor to help formulate a new Medium Speed Electric Vehicle (MSEV) classification. As part of a joint effort with The MSEV Coalition consisting of at least eleven Electric Vehicle manufacturers and numerous advocates, the group recently submitted letters of request to The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for rulemaking review.
These same vehicles are available throughout America, although our federal law has not been updated to reflect the latest innovations in transportation technology. Many customers are happy to have this choice available to them for all their local driving, as the actual energy costs are about 2-3 cents per mile.
Per Santa Monica Fleet Superintendent Rick Sikes, "We could replace more than 10% of our fleet with MSEVs, limited to 35 mph, without a decrease in service or operator acceptance."
EnVironmental Motors sells the ZENN luxury Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) which comes equipped with a solid aluminum alloy frame used for highway cars in Europe, along with a robust AC drive motor, heater and option for air conditioning. The ZENN is one of several cars that can satisfy the need for a zero emission 35mph second car right away - once the Federal Government removes the legal obstacles.
This is the natural progression for electric vehicles from golf carts at 15 mph to NEVs at 25 to around town cars at 35 mph. This would be easiest, fastest and most affordable way to get zero emissions vehicle on our streets says Russell Sydney, Coordinator for the Coalition.
To join the efforts and support the greening of our city streets, or for more information about the Medium Speed Electric Vehicle Coalition, call 310.450.7419 or email: Main@sustainableclub.org. For anyone who would like to learn more or enjoy a truly ZENN experience (the name ZENN is an acronym for Zero Emission No Noise), visit www.EnVironmentalMotors.com or contact EnVironmental Motors directly at 818.244.MYEV to schedule a test drive appointment.
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For us and our children!!
Posted speed limits and weather conditions should be the only limitations to the driver's operation of a vehicle regardless of the type of motive force.
we have the right to have a choice.
Thank you for doing this!
I think this is so important. I hope you will listen to all of us who are trying to influence you.
New electric vehicle class must be issued immediately for us to avert economic downturn in economy and save our air quality. Would the Federal government PLEASE EXPEDITE this for us! Cathy R.
I am ready to buy an electric car if it will go at least 35 MPH. Please give the willing manafactures the go ahead to sell them now. Electric cars should be a viable option and should not be restricted by legislation. Congress should be promoting, not limiting alternatives to gasoline-burning engines.
stop letting the oil companies run this country. let us start to protect the envionment and the economic future of the u.s.
Increasing the speed limit would greatly increase the usefullness of an electric vehicle around town or city and pave the way for stronger and more efficient electric cars.
I would definitely use an EV as my local vehicle if I was allowed to drive it on the roads at 35-40 when that is the posted speed limit. I don't feel safe at the idea of doing 25 in a 40 mph zone.
From a cost perspective, an MSV's competition is a motorcycle. NHTSA should recognize that MSVs can provide a safer, all-weather alternative, exclusive of it’s environmental benefit. Two wheels should not be our only option.
It only makes sense to creat a Medium Speed Vehicle classification so these cars can be driven on more roads by more people.
Low and mid-speed vehicles do not kill: big, overweight, overpowered vehicles do. Electric vehicles get us off of oil; Internal Combustions Engines keep us dependent on someone else's oil.
As a United States citizen, I want to add my voice to the plea for action from our Congress based on reason, common sense, and concern for the well-being of our citizenry. Electric cars should be a viable option and should not be restricted by legislation. Congress should be promoting, not limiting alternatives to gasoline-burning engines.
Battery electric vehicle are a significant progress. Progressive America should not bock it, for fear of loosing a huge market!
How long do we have to wait? Make way for the future!
Electric cars are definitely part of the solution to weaing ourselves from foreign oil and terrorists- lets do all we can to make them more attractive to the average consumer, to strengthen our economy, homeland security, and give future generations a future!
When are we going to stop hamstringing ourselves and fight this "war" the way it's supposed to be fought? The terrorists' main source of cash is profits from the oil we consume. During WWII (to which this war is frequently compared), we persistently bombed and destroyed anything that was an asset to the enemy. Well, we obviously cannot do that with our current enemies because we are so addicted to their product. If we want to hit the enemy where it hurts, we need to find alternate sources of energy and transportation. Viable electric cars is one of those alternatives. We can produce the energy (coal/nuclear/solar/wind-derived electricity) here; produce the car (more jobs in sluggish/recessive economy) here; market the cars everywhere (re-establish the U.S. as an economic and technological force). By limiting electric vehicles, we are continuing to limit ourselves.
As a Washington state resident, I am interested in a Federal standard that would encourage higher-volume manufacturing of medium-speed vehicles as well as increased competition, thus creating a better selection of vehicles I could purchase for use in my state. More importantly, as economies of scale kick in, we will see even more interest in highway-speed electric vehicles - the real prize and absolutely necessary step to kick our oil habit. This will benefit our environment, economy and security.
We need to light the candles we have now and stop cursing the darkness.
I have driven BEV's for 4 years now.No better way to get from point A to B with out walking or pedaling.
BRING THE ELECTRIC CAR BACK TO LIFE AND OUR AMERICAN MONEY AWAY FROM MIDDLE EASTERN OIL!!!
It is time to focus on clean air and viable options for US citizens to drive locally. We need electric vehicles that can go at higher speeds. I want to reduce/eliminate my need for oil and reduce my families carbon footprint. With young kids, I need other options that scooters or motorcyles. Please allow for medium speed electric vehicles to be sold. Thank you.
I am embarrassed to be an American. We should be on the forefront of alternative energies. Now we are putting a moratorium on alternative energy projects on public lands. We must look like a bunch of retards to the outside world. All taxis in NYC should be EV, two (2) years ago.
This is a very practical and much needed solution for commuting in DC. It should be noted that I am "signing" this on a code orange day.
We can all see what having no energy policy has gotten us. Now we are all paying for those who have used our resource of oil unnecessarily. It is time to begin using electric in our vehicles. It is obvious that our government functions only to line the pockets of a few and is no longer serving the good of it's people.
Electric cars could be charged with solar panels, wind generators, waste methane generators, geothermal, wave, tidal or other renewable energy sources, reducing our addiction to oil and our greenhouse gas emissions
Texas in particular needs to get off its duff and change the laws so slower electric vehicles can legally be driven on highways. I ahve to start my full size dadge van each day to go to the bank and post office, each only about 3-5 miles away, but can not use an electric vehicle because Texas will not allow in on roads with posted speed limit of over 35 mph!!
We need real change now, before it is too late...
We need to help our environment, and this will be a major step in that direction
It is our moral and social responsibility to alleviate the bureaucracy concerning electric vehicles. It is time that the Federal Government listen to its constituents and the rest of the world to help find solutions to limit our carbon footprint. Americans want more options, not excuses. Dan Baker Saratoga, CA
We are in dire need of reducing our dependence upon foreign oil, carbon emissions, and the threat of increasing costs to run fossil fueled autos. It is crucial to support alternative methods of transportation such as the electric, and solar-powered battery run cars, as the people who merchandise them! The electric car is neither useful or practical at the current reduced speed of 25 mph. It is time for the federal government to stop supporting the oil industry, and turn to supporting alternative methods of reducing the collective carbon footprint! Raising the legal speed on electric cars is one way to begin.
Please consider this request for an idea whose time has come. We all need better solutions for the air we breath and the way we travel and use resources. Thank you for your time and consideration of this issue which could solve some of these problems for us right now.
I hope that our government can see this is a dated law and it is need of revision. If it is a safety issue then surely rules can be designed to allow such vehicles to be safe. Consumers should have options available to rid ourselves of dependence on so much foreign oil, improving our health with low / zero emissions, and improving our pocket books with the use of electric. I have been quite dismayed by the lack of electric vehicles available in a country such as ours. We won the space race, put a man on the moon but cannot make a battery move a car down a road.
It only makes sense to phase out petroleum based fuel vehicles. Please consider allowing more of these vehicles on the road.
electric is the only way to go, and it gets cheaper all the time. As far as the air our childrens' air and the planet we leave them, its the only choice.
Host of the EVcast.com - Global podcast on electric vehicles
Electric vehicles now Please!
Please don,t limit electric nev,s to 25 mph. These cars would be much more useful to everyone if they were allowed to operate up to 40mph. Electric cars that could go 35 to 40 miles perhour would be more attractive to buyers and slow our use of fossel fuel.
I would like to breathe clean air
This is one many special-interest laws, and possibly the most important special-interest law, that needs to be eliminated. We should have had hydrogen and/or electric and/or solar vehicles filling the interstates, the highways, and they city streets YEARS ago!!!! Yet it is decided upon by those with money and control of oil. Thanks a lot Exxon, thanks a lot Nixon, thanks a lot Reagan, thanks a lot Bush 1, thanks a lot Clinton and MUCHO GRACIAS Bush #2! You've all been a bunch of really forward, progressive thinkers in the tradition of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Kennedy - NOT!!
NEV laws should be amended to allow these vehicles to travel up to 35 or 40mph on roads and streets where the speed limit is 40mph or less. This would result in safer driving and more practical usage of these vehicles.
It's getting pretty obvious, considering the 1420 wildfires currently burning in Califonia, and the week we had recently in my city where we went from 103 degrees on Sunday to 58 degrees with an inch of rain falling in less than 4 minutes on Thursday; that we've got to address this issue. Political predilictions aside,let's begin to take the necessary steps with the "can do" attitude this country is (was?) famous for.
Everything about these cars is a 'no-brainer'. They are good for the air and will help people get off their oil dependency. Please, please help make them affordable and able to travel at least 35-40 MPH so everyone will want one. The big automakers are probably scared and are fighting the coalition.
The law must be changed! It's dangerous to drive 25mph when the flow of traffic is usually faster.
getting off oil and other fossil fuels is the key to mitigating the impact of global warming! It's your job to serve the public good. Please do the right thing!
this bill MUST be passed....we need to get all gas cars off the roads to save our environment and mankind....
The sooner the better!
