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Date: Apr 26, 2016 11:06 AM
Subject: How State and Local Governments Are Adopting Electric Vehicles
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From: "Center for American Progress" <progress@americanprogress.org>
Date: Apr 26, 2016 11:06 AM
Subject: How State and Local Governments Are Adopting Electric Vehicles
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| April 26, 2016 | View Online | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leading by Example: State and Local Governments Are Adopting Electric Vehicles | |||||||||||||||||||||||
In the United States, the transportation sector is responsible for 27 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions. Light duty vehicles—the cars and trucks that Americans drive every day—account for 60 percent of those emissions. As a result, making vehicles cleaner needs to be a central focus of any successful U.S. climate change mitigation strategy. Some state and local governments are leading by example and incorporating EVs and plug-in hybrids into their public fleets. The cost of fueling an EV is lower than the cost of using gasoline or diesel for fleet vehicles and driving an EV produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions than the average new car powered by gasoline. Public fleets are well suited to using EVs because they often have set routes, so public officials can predict daily charging needs. A municipal EV fleet will not only help reduce emissions from the transportation sector, but it also will help build mobile showrooms to expose private consumers to the benefits of EV technology and, perhaps, motivate them to go electric the next time they purchase a vehicle. Read more here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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