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Electric vehicles (EVs) make sense for customers and for the nation, but the transition to EVs is in its
early stages and requires supportive policies to overcome barriers to adoption.
– EVs provide environmental, customer, energy grid, and national security benefits. This is due, in
part, to an energy mix that is domestically produced and increasingly clean.
– Transportation electrification has made notable progress, not only in the passenger vehicle
market, but also in a wide variety of commercial applications and non-road uses. While the longterm
trends point toward increased electrification, policy drivers and industry action in the nearterm
will …
The State of Colorado is rapidly emerging as a leader in the electric vehicle (EV) market. According to the ZEV Sales Dashboard, as of August 2017 there were 11,238 EVs in Colorado. Over the first eight months of 2017, EV sales were up 73% over the same period in 2016. Battery electric vehicles (BEV) comprised 70% of total EV sales with plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) making up the remainder. Colorado currently ranks 8th in the nation for highest market share1 and seventh for number of EVs per capita. In 2016, The Washington Post named Colorado the best place in …
View Full ResourceAt COP21 in Paris, the Global Fuel Economy Initiative committed to extending practical support to 100 countries to implement policies to promote cleaner, more efficient vehicles. By COP23, thanks to new funding from the FIA Foundation, European Commission and Global Environment Facility, GFEI have increased in-country support to over 65 developing and emerging economies, and engage many more through the G20 (Transport Task Group) and OECD.
Unprecedented global action is needed across the transport sector to cut CO2 emissions if we are to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 degrees. GFEI is accelerating policy change, …
View Full ResourceThis study estimated the costs and benefits of increased penetration of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in the state of Illinois. The study estimated the benefits that would accrue to all electric utility customers in Illinois due to greater utilization of the electric grid during off-peak hours, and increased utility revenues from PEV charging. In addition, the study estimated the annual financial benefits to Illinois drivers from owning PEVs—from fuel and maintenance cost savings compared to owning gasoline vehicles—and societal benefits resulting from reduced gasoline consumption and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Two different PEV penetration levels between 2030 and 2050 …
View Full ResourceThe world doesn’t need any more cost-benefit analyses; they’ve already been done, and they show that vehicle electrification is overwhelmingly beneficial for society as a whole—even for non-drivers. Nor should we doubt that people will buy electric vehicles (EVs). Sales are accelerating so rapidly that Bloomberg New Energy Finance warns the U.S. will hit an “infrastructure cap” in the mid-2030s due to a lack of charging stations. The questions we should be grappling with now is where to build EV chargers, who should own them, and how to make fast charging a sustainable business.…
View Full ResourceBattery electricity storage is a key technology in the world’s transition to a sustainable energy system. Battery systems can support a wide range of services needed for the transition, from providing frequency response, reserve capacity, black-start capability and other grid services, to storing power in electric vehicles, upgrading mini-grids and supporting “self-consumption” of rooftop solar power.
In the longer-term, batteries could support very high levels of variable renewable electricity, specifically by storing surplus energy and releasing it later, when the sun is not shining or the wind not blowing strongly enough.
While pumped-hydro systems still dominate electricity storage (with 96% …
View Full ResourceThis study estimated the costs and benefits of increased penetration of plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) in the state of Michigan. The study estimated the benefits that would accrue to all electric utility customers in Michigan due to greater utilization of the electric grid during off-peak hours, and increased utility revenues from PEV charging. In addition, the study estimated the annual financial benefits to Michigan drivers from owning PEVs– from fuel and maintenance cost savings compared to owning gasoline vehicles – and societal benefits resulting from reduced gasoline consumption and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Two different penetration levels between 2030 …
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This report is part 2 of a study of the potential to achieve a particular target of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle sales worldwide by 2030. That target is 100 million for 4 wheel road vehicles (cars and LDVs) as a cumulative sales (or roughly a stock) target in that year, consistent with the Paris Declaration on Electromobility. The previous report2 provided an overview of trends and some of the key considerations in getting to the 100 million target. This report takes a more rigorous approach, considering formalized models and scenario development and projecting key factors to 2030 to gain …
As part of the global coalition of countries committed to fighting climate change, the United States has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. To meet that goal, the Obama administration has taken action to clean up the power sector, make cars and trucks more energy efficient, and reduce emissions from other parts of the economy. To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, however, the United States—and its global partners—will have to achieve much steeper emissions reductions in the coming decades.
The transportation sector accounts for more than …
View Full ResourceDispassionate public policy evaluation is crucial in contexts characterized by strong prior beliefs about the merits of the policy and/or its targeted outcome. Federal subsidies for purchasing electric cars (and many state-level incentives) reflect beliefs that electric vehicles generate a range of benefits, including environmental benefits from electric vehicle use. Rather than simply accepting this belief, our research compares the environmental consequences of gasoline and electric vehicles.
A rigorous assessment of policies pertaining to electric cars is complicated by interactions among economic and physical systems. First, despite being treated by regulators as “zero emission vehicles,” electric vehicles are not necessarily …
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