California's Governor Brown Signs Electric Vehicle Legislation.

[Benz]

Here is a link: http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18234

 

[efusco]

Text at link:
9-28-2013

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today marked “National Plug In Day” by signing a half dozen bills to support California’s burgeoning electric vehicle market.

“Today, we reaffirm our commitment in California to an electric vehicle future,” said Governor Brown.

The Governor signed the following bills today:

• AB 8 by Assemblymember Henry T. Perea (D-Fresno): Extends to 2024 programs aimed at reducing auto emissions in California, including the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, the Air Quality Improvement Program, the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program and the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program.
• AB 266 by Assemblymember Robert Blumenfield (D-Woodland Hills): Extends the white sticker program allowing for certain low-emission vehicles to drive in high-occupancy or “diamond” lanes until 2019 or until federal authorization expires.
• AB 1092 by Assemblymember Marc B. Levine (D-San Rafael): Requires the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop standards for electric vehicle charging infrastructure in multi-family housing and non-residential developments.
• SB 286 by Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco): Extends the green sticker program allowing for certain low-emission vehicles to drive in high-occupancy or “diamond” lanes until 2019 or until federal authorization expires.
• SB 359 by Senator Ellen Corbett (D-Hayward): Provides $30 million to fund the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project and the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project; $10 million to fund the Heavy-Duty Vehicle Air Quality Loan Program; and appropriates $8 million for the enhanced fleet modernization program.
• SB 454 by Senator Ellen Corbett (D-Hayward): Creates the Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Open Access Act, which removes obstacles to using electric vehicles by making electric vehicle charging stations accessible to all electric vehicle drivers, easier to locate and more convenient to use.

This legislation builds on the state’s efforts to help California's electric vehicle market grow, including an Executive Order issued by Governor Brown that established a target of 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on the road in California by 2025 and a number of other long-term goals.

Earlier this month, Governor Brown joined dozens of California business, automotive, consumer, technology and utility leaders to discuss and highlight public and private sector efforts to expand the state's electric vehicle market at the "Drive the Dream" event sponsored by the California Plug-in Electric Vehicle Collaborative.

National Plug In Day is a nationwide celebration of all-electric and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles and includes more than a dozen events across California during the weekend of September 28th to 29th.

*Bold is mine--the only "big" change IMO

 

[gvillager]

I applaud California for taking the lead on this and dragging the rest of the country with them.

 

[jcaspar]

I applaud California for taking the lead on this and dragging the rest of the country with them.

Now if they would only make them sales tax exempt like other states..... We would be in the 21st century

 

[liuping]

Now if they would only make them sales tax exempt like other states..... We would be in the 21st century

A good start would be not charging sales tax on the $7500 federal and $2500 state rebates. Unfortunately, even that bill did not pass.

No sales tax on EVs seems really unlikely...

 

[Apoclyps]

SB454: does that mean Tesla has to open up their Superchargers to non-Tesla cars?

 

[waidy]

SB454: does that mean Tesla has to open up their Superchargers to non-Tesla cars?

And CHAdeMO for Tesla's Model S too

 

[yobigd20]

SB454: does that mean Tesla has to open up their Superchargers to non-Tesla cars?

And CHAdeMO for Tesla's Model S too

No I don't think that is correct at all. This has to deal with billing and memberships.

excerpt from bill:

CHAPTER 8.7. Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Open Access Act

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As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) “Battery” means an electrochemical energy storage system powered directly by electrical current.
(b) “Electric vehicle” means a vehicle that uses a plug-in battery to provide all or part of the motive power of the vehicle, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or plug-in fuel cell vehicle.
(c) “Electric vehicle charging station” means one or more publicly available parking spaces served by electric vehicle service equipment.
(d) “Electric vehicle service equipment” means an electric component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles by permitting the transfer of electric energy to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle.
(e) “Interoperability billing standards” means the ability for a member of one electric charging station billing network to use another billing network.
(f)“Network roaming” means the act of a member of one electric vehicle charging station billing network using a charging station that is outside of the member’s billing network with his or her billing network account information.
(g) “Publicly available parking space” means a parking space that has been designated by a property owner or lessee to be available to, and accessible by, the public and may include on-street parking spaces and parking spaces in surface lots or parking garages. “Publicly available parking space” shall not include a parking space that is part of, or associated with, a private residence, a parking space that is reserved for the exclusive use of an individual driver or vehicle or for a group of drivers or vehicles, such as employees, tenants, visitors, residents of a common interest development, or residents of an adjacent building, or a parking space provided by a producer of electric vehicles as a service. Nothing in this article limits the ability of an owner or lessee of a publicly available parking space whose primary business is other than electric vehicle charging from restricting use of the parking space, such as limiting use to customers and visitors of the business.

44268.2.

(a) (1) Persons desiring to use an electric vehicle charging station that requires payment of a fee shall not be required to pay a subscription fee in order to use the station, and shall not be required to obtain membership in any club, association, or organization as a condition of using the station. The total actual charges for the use of an electric vehicle charging station, including any additional network roaming charges for nonmembers, shall be disclosed to the public at the point of sale. An electric vehicle charging station that requires payment of a fee shall allow a person desiring to use the station to pay via credit card or mobile technology, or both.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), an electric vehicle charging station may offer services on a subscription- or membership-only basis provided those electric vehicle charging stations allow nonsubscribers or nonmembers the ability to use the electric vehicle charging station through the payment options detailed in paragraph (1).
(b) The service provider of electric vehicle service equipment at an electric vehicle charging station or its designee shall disclose to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory the electric vehicle charging station’s geographic location, a schedule of fees , accepted methods of payment, and the amount of network roaming charges for nonmembers, if any.
(c) Electric vehicle charging stations shall be labeled in accordance with Part 309 of Title 16 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and, where commercially reasonable and feasible, may be clearly marked with appropriate directional signage in the parking area or facility where they are located.
(d) If no interoperability billing standards have been adopted by a national standards organization by January 1, 2015, the state board may adopt interoperability billing standards for network roaming payment methods for electric vehicle charging stations. If the state board adopts interoperability billing standards, all electric vehicle charging stations that require payment shall meet those standards within one year. Any standards adopted by the state board shall consider other governmental or industry-developed interoperability billing standards and may adopt interoperability billing standards promulgated by an outside authoritative body.

the way I interpret that has to deal with the BILLING, not with the technology standard. I interpret this to mean that these stations must offer generic credit card services so that you could use either one. I don't see anything (at least not in the above statements...perhaps elsewhere in the bill but I need to look into that further) that states that the technology itself needs to be opened up or generic adapters offered by the technology. So basically, the station needs to provide a way for you to use it without needing to be a "member" of the billing network.

I don't see anything in there that says the tesla chargers need to also have J1772 or Chademo adapters or publish their proprietary protocols for anyone to make adapters.

I'll do some more digging on this but again so far I don't see anything that says the technology itself needs to be opened up.

http://www.plugincars.com/californi...c-charging-networks-available-all-127168.html

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actually, the best way to describe this may be it "requires that all public chargers in California be open to customers with credit cards." The superchargers are not public, they are private only to Tesla vehicles. Its not a public charger that anyone can use so this bill does not apply to them.

 

[bonnie]

Moderator Note: Added region to thread title to make it easier for TMC members browsing via 'new threads' to understand this is a regional thread.

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SB454: does that mean Tesla has to open up their Superchargers to non-Tesla cars?

No. Tesla owns the Superchargers. It's not a public charging spot. And the charging hardware is proprietary.

 

[gaswalla]

extension of the HOV access til 2019 is huge too.
Kind of silly that my other car: Plug In Prius gets this access until 2019 also.. but that is Sacramento logic