On the Road with Electric Vehicles
As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues, President Obama is calling upon Americans to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. With the nation’s transportation system heavily reliant on petroleum, this change is unlikely to occur unless Americans transform the way we move ourselves and our goods around the nation.
In May of this year, Democrats and Republicans in both the U.S. House and Senate introduced legislation designed to advance the wide-scale adoption of electric vehicles – and to develop the infrastructure needed to support them – in order to combat oil dependence.
On June 11, Robbie Diamond, CEO of the Electrification Coalition, will describe the roadmap this bill lays out toward electrification. He will explain its proposal to have geographic areas compete to be selected as electrification “deployment cities,” and how, in these chosen communities, a wide array of financial incentives would be employed so that all of the elements of an electrified transportation system would deploy simultaneously.
