Press Conference at Rally for Vote on Gas-Free Cars

March 24, 2008

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MEDIA CONTACT: Zan Dubin Scott O: (310) 392-1130 C: (310) 383-0956

Plug In America P.O. Box 1174 El Segundo, CA 90245

PRESS CONFERENCE AT RALLY FOR VOTE ON GAS-FREE CARS

Environmental, Business, Government Leaders Urge California to Step On It Rally to Feature All-Electric Cars

Plug In America, the organization leading the nation's electric vehicle movement, will hold a press conference and rally on Wednesday (3/26) to urge California air regulators to resuscitate electric car production when they revise the enfeebled Zero Emission Vehicle Program on Thursday.

Media are invited to hear last-minute forecasts of how the California Air Resources Board may vote on the revision, and the consequences of that vote.

Speakers at the press conference will include R. James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Ze'ev Drori, CEO of Tesla Motors; Chelsea Sexton, executive director of Plug In America and a key figure in "Who Killed the Electric Car", and representatives of Sierra Club California.

They will urge the Air Resources Board to require automakers to produce tens of thousands of electric cars - instead of merely hundreds - when the board votes to revise its historic Zero Emission Vehicle Program. The rally will feature several electric vehicles - including Tesla sports cars - and dozens of supporters like those who have sent faxes and emails to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from every state in the nation and 20 other countries asking him to help create a future free of pollution and full of petroleum-free cars.

"Consumers around the world have weighed in, urging the Air Resources Board to hold firm to its requirement of tens of thousands of zero-emission vehicles, not hundreds,” Sexton says. “The board must stop blocking progress and lead again, or it will cease to be relevant when the market impels automakers to produce the cars that the board is proposing to abandon.”

DATE: Wednesday, March 26, 2008

TIME: Press Conference and Rally: 11 a.m. (rally will continue throughout the afternoon)

LOCATION: Front Courtyard, California EPA Building, 1001 I St., Sacramento, CA 95812

PARTICIPANTS: R. James Woolsey, former director, Central Intelligence Agency Ze’ev Drori, CEO, Tesla Motors Chelsea Sexton, executive director, Plug In America Sierra Club California Rainforest Action Network

RALLY: Dozens of clean-car advocates, environmentalists and all-electric vehicles including: Tesla Roadsters, Toyota RAV4 EVs, Ford Rangers, the eBox by AC Propulsion and the Zero X from Zero Motorcycles.

NOTE: For Plug In America's previous press release, its letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and list of letter co-signers, go to http://www.pluginamerica.org/press-room.shtm. Download press release PDF version