SAN FRANCISCO -- Automakers expressed qualified support for California's proposed rules to require carmakers to build more electric and other less-polluting hybrid cars and trucks by 2025.
Companies including Ford Motor Corp., Chrysler Group LLC, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. and others submitted testimony Thursday in support of new emissions standards during a meeting of California Air Resources Board.
The board is scheduled to resume hearing testimony on the regulations - which would require that vehicles emit about 75 percent less smog-producing pollutants - on Friday morning in Los Angeles.
The new standards also include big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, and would begin with new cars sold in 2015, and get increasingly more stringent until 2025.
(Associated Press)
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