Passenger vehicles make up about 20 percent of greenhouse gas pollutants in most developed nations. In emerging economies, the percentage of vehicle emissions is fast rising, a non-sustainable trend if we are to protect the planet from climate change. Reducing passenger vehicle greenhouse gas emissions will require a transformation away from the gasoline internal combustion engine to electric drive vehicles that use low carbon fuels. The technologies that may meet this challenge include plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The panel will discuss how and when the transformation to low carbon-emitting passenger vehicles and fuels can occur, and what it will cost. The panel will also address the importance of subnational efforts and cooperation with the federal governments.

Chair & Moderator

Mary D. Nichols
Chairman of the California Air Resources Board

Speakers

[Speaker] Bharat Balasubramanian
Vice President of Product Innovations and Process Technologies at Daimler AG, Germany

[Speaker] Dr. He Kebin
Dean of the Graduate School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University, China

[Speaker] Edward Kjaer
Director of Electric Transportation at Southern California Edison

[Speaker] Ed Nam
Director of Light Duty On-road Center of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

[Speaker] Gina McCarthy
Assistant Administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation at the United States Environmental Protection Agency

[Speaker] Diarmuid O'Connell
Vice President of Business Development at Tesla

[Speaker] Christopher P. Reynolds
Group Vice President and General Counsel of Toyota Motor Sales, Inc.

[Speaker] Dr. Daniel Sperling
Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis

[Speaker] Graeme Sweeney
Executive Vice President CO2 of Shell Oil Company

[Speaker] Jason Wolf
Director of Business Development for North America at Better Place