Plugin Vehicle Facts
- Battery Electric Vehicles (EVs) are by far the most efficient vehicles in the world.
- According to the Department of Energy, enough excess generating capacity exists at night in the U.S. to charge 180 million EVs without adding any new capacity.
- All of our electricity is domestic except for a small percentage from Canada.
- Most people worldwide waste more electricity in their homes than they would use to drive their cars.
- We will never fight a war over electricity.
- Driving on electricity from the U.S. grid is far cleaner than driving on oil.
- A survey of EV owners found that 48% of them used solar energy to power their houses and cars.
- EVs by the millions could be built today.
- Plug-in cars capable of 50 miles per day would meet the needs of 80% of the American driving public. Source: U.S. Department of Transportation.
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