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Category Archives: motor vehicles
Business TREND. Anatomy of a 4500 EV charging station rollout by a utility.
The utility: PG&E
Total number of charging stations planned for the network of charging stations? 7500
Where does PG&E looking to place the EV chargers?
- Condominiums
- apartment buildings and
- workplace
What’s the Q1 phase for the EV charging roll out plan? PG&E will place EV charging stations in partnerships with business customers
Cost of the program? $130 million
Length of the roll out to achieve 7500 EV charging stations: 3 years and end in 2020
Lege TREND. Increasing registration fees for EVs. 3 Fee Changes in Home of the Sego Lily.
A 114-page bill proposal from Utah’s Legislative Transportation and Funding Task Force suggests this fee schedule for EVs:
- $200 annual registration fee for EVs, up from the current $44
- $75 annual registration fee for hybrid vehicles, up from the current $44
- The $200 fee is set to mirror the annual amount of gas tax the average Utah driver pays
State Appoints Tesla Employee to Motor Vehicle Dealer Board. 3 Results.
Virginia Governor McAuliffe appointed a Tesla Motors Inc. employee to a board that oversees automobile dealers, and here’s what happened:
- The Governor became former governor before Senate confirmation
- The Virginia Automobile Dealers Association vocally opposed the appointment
- The Senate Committee rejects the appointment.
Background of direct sales in Virginia: The commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles permitted Tesla to open a company-owned store. The Auto Dealer…
TRENDING. Ride Share vs. Traffic Laws like Car Seats. 3 potential fixes:
Car seat laws, like Arizon’a usually require children younger than 8 years old or less than 4 feet 9 inches tall to sit in a proper child safety seat.
So, you get into a ride share with a child that requires a safety seat, but you don’t bring a safety seat- what’s the law?
- clear statutory responsiblity in ride share statutes or ordinances
- ride share platforms can include car seat options
- requirements that divers cancel/refuse riders when there is no child safety seat
Regulatory TREND. 3 Study Results. Colorado Pay As You Drive vs. Gas Tax
Colorado Department of Transportation released the results of a pay as you drive pilot study & here’s the results:
- There will be credit for any payment of the gas tax
- Participants reported that the pay as you drive system is fair
- CDOT remains unsure about the future of the pay as you drive program
The parameters for the pilot:
- 4 months
- Participants from 27 Colorado counties
- Participants reported how much they drove by:
- using GPS tracker
- photographing their odometer
- other technology…
TX Attorney General Opinion Watch. Manufacturers vs. Dealers.
Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has requested an Attorney General opinion as to whether a dealer that performs manufacturer warranty repair violates the Occupations Code.
Why? A manufacturer or distributor cannot act like a dealer under Texas law.
Again, why? Texas Automobile Dealer Association filed a complaint with TX DMV claiming Cummins South Plains LLC violated this separation by performing manufacturer warranty repair work on diesel engines
Where is the legislative clean up likely? …
Lege Trend. Direct Sales Bill Draft in the Empire State.
State Legislature looking to expand electric vehicle manufacturer sales: New York
What does the 2018 bill look like?
- Limits current manufacturer sales of EV vehicles to 20 locations in New York
- Requiring geographically diverse locations in upstate New York
- Requires that the manufacturer-seller also have repair services
- Applies only to manufacturers that were licensed to sell in March 2014
What’s current law on electric vehcile manufacturer sales in NY? 5 Tesla sales locations are…
Business TREND begets Lege TREND. Airbnb for Cars. Rent your unused car.
The business trend: Turo, a car sharing platform that describes itself as Airbnb for cars
The policy issues: liability and insurance
The platform offers insurance coverage, how are policy affected: Coverage levels and addressing the platform in statute
Lege Trend. Sunshine State Republicans. Alternative Transportation Authority to Fund Autonomous Vehicles. How it works:
The Bills, HB535 and SB 1200, would:
- Create the Statewide Alternative Transportation Authority
- Repurpose an existing $60 million in rail funds to fund alternative transportation projects
- The “alternative” projects would include:
- “Bus Rapid Transit”
- Autonomous vehicles
- Focus on urban areas like Tampa Bay area & Miami
- For local governments to get to the satte alternative transportation dollars, counties and cities would have to match funds