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Standardization Roadmap for U.S. Electric Vehicle Deployment

ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel Facilitates the Safe, Mass Rollout of EVs and Charging Infrastructure to Help Enable EV Penetration of the Consumer MarketNew York  April 23, 2012

Developed by interests in the automotive, electrotechnical, and utilities industries, as well as from standards developing organizations (SDOs) and government, the Standardization Roadmap is intended to: Facilitate the development of a comprehensive, robust, and streamlined standards and conformance landscape for electric vehicles; and Maximize the coordination and harmonization of the standards and conformance environment domestically and with international partners.

In an apparent compromise, the Environmental Protection Agency capped at 200,000 per maker the number of electric vehicles that could be credited with a 0-gram rating for carbon dioxide (CO2) through 2016. Additional EVs would be charged some responsibility for the CO2 created while producing the electricity to charge them.