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PostAugust 8, 2017

What’s keeping you from having an electric vehicle (EV)?

We know that transportation accounts for 25-35% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The growing consensus is that electrification of vehicles can significantly lower those emissions. 

Knowing that, what’s kept you from buying an EV?  Please tell us in a couple of words or sentences with a Comment under this Post about the one main thing that’s stopping you.  [If you have an EV, tell us what moved you forward!]

In a later Post we’ll have a closer look at the recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance findings - recently reported in their EV Outlook 2017.  The authors significantly accelerated prior predictions to conclude that 54% of new vehicles sold and 33% of the fleet will be EV’s by 2040.  Hmmm – wonder why?? 

See also: Drawdown, pp.142-143.

by Dave Damm-Luhr
Topics
Energy
Electrification
Transportation
Cars

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