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Zev Regs

NPR's Elaine Korry reports that California has relaxed regulations which would have required that two percent of the vehicles sold in California by 1998 emit zero emissions. For all practical purposes this would have meant putting electric cars on the market. Carmakers have been fighting this mandate ever since it was passed.

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