electric cars

  • With the Right Government Incentives, Electric Vehicle Adoption Could Rise

    With the Right Government Incentives, Electric Vehicle Adoption Could Rise

    Over the past decade, the trend of switching to electricity as a power source for everything from cars to space heaters has garnered much attention. With electricity now increasingly being generated from renewable energy sources, the electrification of transportation offers an attractive approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and potentially…

  • Are electric cars more environmentally friendly? It depends where you drive them.

    Are electric cars more environmentally friendly? It depends where you drive them.

    The boom in electric car sales, enhanced by federal subsidies, does not reflect the fact that, in some cases, powering those cars produces more emissions than powering conventional cars. The characteristics of each state and regional mode of electricity generation should be considered in designing a subsidy (or tax) scheme.