Climate Change - Transportation Solution
The Future is Now. Electric vehicles are a game-changing technology. They are the key to breaking our addiction to dirty oil, along with better public transit in more compact communities and changes in the way we move freight.
This is because electricity is much easier to ‘clean up’ than are liquid fuels. In the coming decades, oil will become increasingly dirty as conventional sources are used up and we switch to synthetic crude from the tar sands. Electricity, on the other hand, will become increasingly cleaner as we bring on-line more wind, solar, and geothermal power, as well as low-impact hydro and biomass.
By switching to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and ultimately fully-electric vehicles, we reduce the demand for oil. And that means less air pollution and fewer greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
This is because electricity is much easier to ‘clean up’ than are liquid fuels. In the coming decades, oil will become increasingly dirty as conventional sources are used up and we switch to synthetic crude from the tar sands. Electricity, on the other hand, will become increasingly cleaner as we bring on-line more wind, solar, and geothermal power, as well as low-impact hydro and biomass.
By switching to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and ultimately fully-electric vehicles, we reduce the demand for oil. And that means less air pollution and fewer greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
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"Until we have a fleet of cars that run on electricity, we are going to need oil. We are going to need more energy, even if we have more energy efficiency."
John Felmy, Chief Economist for the American Petroleum Institute, in February 18, 2009 Chicago Tribune
Currently, electric vehicles still need energy that comes at least partially from fossil fuels such as coal. But since electric vehicles are far more efficient than their conventional mechanical counterparts, they already have fewer greenhouse gas emissions than traditional vehicles. They also have the potential to become even greener as the availability of renewable electricity increases.
Electric vehicles can also ease the integration of renewable power into the electrical grid because their battery packs can store power from intermittent renewable like wind. Nor will this overly stress the electricity system, as modeling by the Ontario Power Authority shows that we could power plug-in hybrids making up 5 per cent of our vehicle fleet (the Ontario government’s target for 2020) with the amount of electricity generated by wind power in that province last year.
Electric vehicles will take us on a journey toward a more sustainable future. And Canada could be in the driver’s seat of the green transportation revolution.
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John Felmy, Chief Economist for the American Petroleum Institute, in February 18, 2009 Chicago Tribune
Currently, electric vehicles still need energy that comes at least partially from fossil fuels such as coal. But since electric vehicles are far more efficient than their conventional mechanical counterparts, they already have fewer greenhouse gas emissions than traditional vehicles. They also have the potential to become even greener as the availability of renewable electricity increases.
Electric vehicles can also ease the integration of renewable power into the electrical grid because their battery packs can store power from intermittent renewable like wind. Nor will this overly stress the electricity system, as modeling by the Ontario Power Authority shows that we could power plug-in hybrids making up 5 per cent of our vehicle fleet (the Ontario government’s target for 2020) with the amount of electricity generated by wind power in that province last year.
Electric vehicles will take us on a journey toward a more sustainable future. And Canada could be in the driver’s seat of the green transportation revolution.
Learn more…