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6.D. - Page 15 of 30 increased incentives if located within a California disadvantaged community census tract.23 Current rebate statistics are available on the website of the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE).24 Why Now is the Time to Convert Government Fleets to ZEVs Even those cities whose Climate Action Plans include proposed electric vehicle fleet procurement policies have not fully implemented them (see Table 1, last column vs. # of Fleet Vehicles). San Carlos, for example, has a strong and specific policy but has purchased no electric vehicles. In this report, the Grand Jury has not investigated the specific reasons each city may have for not implementing electric vehicle procurement policies. The following section reviews the general obstacles that local governments have encountered in the past and their current status in 2019. "The California Air Resources Board first adopted the ZEV mandate in 1990 as part of the Low - Emission Vehicle regulation... whose goals were to accelerate industry investment in ZEV technology, discourage industry procrastination, establish initial supply chains, and signal to the many related companies and governments that they should be engaging sooner and more deeply with the transition to ZEVs. ,25 This was 18 years before the first commercially successful ZEV was sold to the public. 26,27 In 2013, the National Research Council identified the main obstacles to public adoption of ZEVs as: • Lack of Customer Knowledge about ZEVs, • High Purchase Price, • Limited Driving Range, • Limited Model Choice, • Lack of Dealer/Mechanic Knowledge about ZEVs, • Lack of Charging Infrastructure, • Lack of Standardization of Charging Infrastructure, and • Lack of Access to 100 percent Renewable Electricity.28 Since 2013, many of these obstacles have been greatly reduced. Several more ZEV models have been introduced to the market and costs have come down to a large extent due to a significant 23 According to Get Healthy San Mateo County, November 2017 Newsletter, "Implications of the Planning for Healthy Communities Act for San Mateo County", portions of East Palo Alto, Redwood City, South San Francisco, Millbrae, San Bruno and unincorporated North Fair Oaks are "disadvantaged community census tracts. https://www. aethealthysmc.orWnewsletter/november-2017-newsletter 24 CVRP Rebate Statistics Webpage 21 Scott Hardman, et al., "Driving the Market for Plug-in Vehicles: Understanding ZEV Mandates". ,https://phev.ucdavis. edu/wp-contegt/uploads/zev-mandates-policy-"ide.pdf 26 U.S. Department of Energy, "The History of the Electric Car", September 2014. https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car 21 Tesla website, "About Tesla", hgps://www.tesla.com/about 26 National Research Council, "Overcoming Barriers to Electric -Vehicle Deployment", 2013. http: //gabrielse.physics.harvard. edu/gabrielse/papers/2013 /Overcomin,gB arriersToElectricVehicleDeployment.pdf 2018-2019 San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury 8 85