2022-05-05 Windward Exh C (Item 3 County Council Initiated PL-CCI-2022-001)

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interest to you folks what are the opportunities for businesses to find funding to implement this program. So, starting off this obviously adoption of electric vehicles is in part about reducing emissions, clean air, and getting us off of fossil fuel. So, it is an environmental bill. However, for me the reason that I chose to move forward with introducing this and enforcing the HRS is it's really about equity. In order to be able to take advantage of the lower cost of ownership of electric vehicles, which is you know you're not paying for gas every week and you're not paying for maintenance fees for oil changes, for changes to carburetors, things like that. In order to take advantage of that lower and moderate-income folks that don't have the opportunity to put chargers at the residents need places of public accommodations to make sure that they're able to use these vehicles and to get around. The market for electric vehicles is changing it used to be kind of a luxury item. As Noel will talk about the cost of an EV Sedan now is almost equivalent to a nice vehicle, an internal combustion engine vehicle. And then like I said, the cost of ownership over the lifetime brings the cost of ownership down significantly. In addition to just creating these places of public charging in compliance with the HRS. Let me just remind you that the HRS already establishes this rule and then just gave us in 2021, us being the Counties the ability to enforce this rule. We made some modifications because we're the Big Island and due to our geography people just have to drive more to get school, to get to work, and to get to the doctor's office. So, the ratio of one charger per 100 stalls just didn't seem appropriate for the level of use that would be necessary to really make EV adoption in Hawaii County accessible to all. I also want to just make a final note that providing these vehicle charging places, the place of public accommodation also allows us more readily loop in the rental car companies and allow them to provide more EV vehicles as part of their fleet. So, the visitors coming to our island are also reducing emissions, helping the environment along with our residence. With that I will pass it over Noel, to give again just a little bit of a lay of the land and then I'm happy to answer any questions about the content of the bill after that presentation. So, Noel over to you. MORIN: Thank you very much Heather. Good morning, commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Noel Morin. I'm a resident of Hilo and I've been involved in electric vehicle advocacy for about a decade. I lead Big Island EV as well as Hawaii EV and I'll be sharing information about electric cars and electric vehicle charging for maybe the next 10 minutes or so and it will also be available for questions. I'd like to be able to share my screen here. Let's see, I hope you can see that. Let me stick this off to the side. Okay you're able to see it right, the screen. KIMBALL: Yes, we've got it Noel, thank you. MORIN: Okay. So, let me start off by just indicating that electric cars are just one component of our solution for sustainable transportation. We need to reduce the need for passenger cars to begin with, and there are many different ways to do that mass transit, bicycles, shared mobility, etcetera. These are all really important. It's really important because it's almost like an 11 EXHIBIT C