Boyd, Alan S., Secretary, Department of Transportation. Case, Hon. Clifford P., a U.S. Senator from the State of New Jersey: Charpie, Robert A., president, Electronics Division, Union Carbide Corp. Chodosh, Dr. Stewart M., battery manager, Leesona Moos Laboratories, Division of Leesona Corp., Great Neck, N. Y. Cohen, Wilbur J., Under Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Coston, Dean W., Deputy Under Secretary, Department of Health, Edu- cation, and Welfare, accompanied by Dr. John Middleton, Director, National Center for Air Pollution Control; Arthur Stern, Assistant Di- rector, National Center for Air Pollution Control; and Dr. John T. Grupenhoff, Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary for Legislation, de Hoffmann, Dr. Frederick, vice president, General Dynamics Corp., and Dieckamp, H., chairman, Technical Committee on Electric Power Sys- Dunlop, Robert G., chairman, board of directors, American Petroleum Eisenberg, M., president, Electrochimica Corp., Menlo Park, Calif.: Ellis, Clyde T., general manager, National Rural Electric Cooperative Ference, Michael, Jr., vice president, scientific research, Ford Motor Co.- 67 275 498 531 493 211 546 504 Graves, Melvin, general manager, Alsat Industries, Detroit, Mich.: Letter 531 Hafer, Paul R., president, Battronic Truck Corp., Boyertown, Pa__ Haworth, Leland J., Director, National Science Foundation: Letter dated Heyman, Horace, Overseas Services, Ltd., Whickham, Newcastle Upon 164 Hoke, John, Washington, D.C.: Letter dated April 25, 1967--- Hollomon, J. Herbert, Acting Under Secretary, Department of Commerce, accompanied by Paul T. O'Day, Office of the Secretary; and Robert B. Ellert, Office of the General Counsel. Jernstedt, George W., general manager, Transportation & Industrial Equipment Divisions, Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa... Knott, Lawson B., Jr., Administrator, General Services Administration: Kreutzer, Arthur C., National LP-Gas Association, Chicago, Ill.: Letter 66 McCarthy, Hon. Richard D., a Representative in Congress from the State 133 McCombe, R. S., Chicken, Alaska: Letter dated March 11, 1967,- Macy, John W., Jr., Chairman, U.S. Civil Service Commission: Letter 545 151 67 Morgan, John S., Rialto, Calif.: Letter dated April 24, 1967- Norwood, Gus, Northwest Public Power Association, Vancouver, Wash__ Ottinger, Hon. Richard L., a Representative in Congress from the State of Packer, Dr. Leo S., Assistant Postmaster General, Bureau of Research 483 Pell, Hon. Claiborne, a U.S. Senator from the State of Rhode Island... Resor, Stanley R., Secretary of the Army, Department of Defense: Letter Rosen, Dr. Frank L., chairman, Air Pollution Committee, Essex County, N.J., Medical Society, Maplewood, N.J.: Letter dated February 14, 135 418 518 Thaler, Sheldon, Spring Valley, N. Y.: Letter dated March 15, 1967- Udall, Hon. Stewart, Secretary, Department of the Interior, accompanied White, Lee C., Chairman, Federal Power Commission. 377 Williams, Charles J., secretary-treasurer, Williams Engine Co., Inc., 519 Wouk, Dr. Victor. general manager, Electronic Energy Conversion Corp., 503 ORGANIZATIONS AND DEPARTMENTS Alden Self-Transit Corp.. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wis.. Alsat Industries, Detroit, Mich... American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.. American Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C.. American Public Power Association.......... Atlantic Research Corp., Alexandria, Va.---- Battronic Truck Corp., Boyertown, Pa.. California Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board. Chrysler Corp., Detroit, Mich.. Citizens for a Quieter City, Inc., New York, N.Y. Citizens for Clean Air, Inc., New York, N.Y. Community of Swan Lake, Mira Loma, Calif. Comptroller General of the United States.. General Services Administration___ Health, Education, and Welfare.. Essex County, N.J., Medical Society, Maplewood, N.J. 518 513 National LP-Gas Association, Chicago, Ill.. Joe Alvin & Co., Los Angles, Calif. Leesona Moos Laboratories Division of Leesona Corp., Great Neck, N.Y.. 515 285 530 ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND OTHER ALTERNATIVES TO THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1967 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE AND THE OF THE SENATE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE, Washington, D.C. The joint committee met at 9:48 a.m. in room 5110, New Senate Office Building, the Honorable Warren G. Magnuson and Edmund S. Muskie, cochairmen, presiding. Cochairman MAGNUSON. The committees will come to order. This morning the Committee on Commerce and the Air and Water Pollution Subcommittee of the Public Works Committee open hearings on S. 451 and S. 453, bills to promote the development of electric vehicles and other nonpolluting alternatives to the internal combustion engine. Yesterday the committees sponsored a display of 10 electricpowered vehicles here at the New Senate Office Building. This morning's hearing is the first of several meetings. A great many witnesses are scheduled, and I do not wish to anticipate their testimony. I would, however, like to mention a few things. As the display proves yesterday, a technology for limited performance and I underline "limited" of electric cars, with useful characteristics, exists today. Better vehicles should become available as the market for them develops. It seems to me that two groups should serve as the initial market to stimulate this development-one is the electric power industry which stands to profit from the increased use of electricity. The other is the Government. The imaginative and selective purchase of prototype electrics by the Federal Government may reward new breakthroughs in design, and help assume the burden of privately financed research and development, of which there is considerable both by the automobile manufacturers themselves and by many others, all of whom are very conscious of the need to do something about the problems, particularly in metropolitan centers. Both the cities and the consumer stand to benefit from the introduction of electrics. The electric will help alleviate air pollution and urban congestion. The consumer will benefit from instant starting, reduced maintenance, long life, and the economy of electricity as a fuel. The electric's return will signal one of the country's responses to the problems of the 20th century. The electric car does not mean a new way of life, but rather it is a new technology to help solve the new problems of our age. 1 |