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Originally Posted by wagonman76
Sounds like a bunch of hogwash. Say your no gas range is 40 miles like they estimate. If you go less than that before your next charge like most city dwellers would, the engine does not even fire up. Zero emissions. If it fires up every time you start the car, its going to create at least some emissions every time.
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If it will run on the conversion pack w/o kicking on the gasoline engine at all until the pack was depleted, then they wouldn't require testing. That's a no brainer. The problem is that AFAIK, none of the plug-in conversions do this, so what CARB wants is a test to insure that when interfacing w/ the vehicle's already present ECUs, their system does not change emissions at all compared to stock. Nothing more, nothing less. This is also because hybrids are smog exempt, so there would be no way to monitor if the PHEV conversions were messing w/ the current setup in a way that increases emissions. Then there's the requirement that they not violate the warranty, which is just protecting the consumer's rights.