Pledge To Drive Electric Vehicles and Install Electric Vehicle Charging Stations by Electric Car Pledge

Thanks for you input. Your point is very well taken and some states in the US are doing a better job of producing clean energy than others. I have a graphic that shows this which I can send you since this forum does not allow for image upload. You can email me at ollie @ electriccarpledge . org and I can send it to you. I'll be updating my proposal this week as we have partnered with government and private organizations to help advance our campaign.

I believe pledging for electric vehicle should go hand in hand with urging our state governments to clean up our state electric grid systems. Then only EVs would be able to truly and most effectively contribute towards climate change mitigation. The below mentioned link gives a good idea on how clean is an electric vehicle powered in different regions of united states: http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/images/cv/electric-cars-global-warming-emissions-fact-2.jpg Also, the government agencies of region with clean gird systems should encourage people to opt for electric vehicle through incentives like: subsidies, lower tax etc.

Excellent grassroot idea for increasing the appeal of EV in markets that they have not yet reached. Benefits/impacts are likely to be small but the costs are also small so this is likely a good cost/benefit option.

Encouraging the public to pledge to purchase an electric vehicle is a great way to raise their awareness. It would be nice to see a map of the zip codes where the pledges have come from, which would be useful data on some of the regions where EV availability may need to increase.

Agreed Brenda. I think the best to get new EV drivers on the road and is to have them speak to existing EV drivers. Yes, the infrastructure is definitely a big hurdle at this point but I see businesses getting on board. We are seeing more businesses contact us daily for charging station information.

Given that California's transportation sector creates more greenhouse gas emissions than any other single source in the state -- 38%, it's critical that we accelerate the transition to electric cars, trucks and buses!

This idea can really get people to make the leap to EVs by getting them to make a commitment--even if only a "pledge".

Electric cars are outstanding. Tesla is awesome. They give out their patents for free. That is such a novel idea. Anything that gets us off Saudi Arabia oil is amazing.

Rebates, rebates, rebates. Most of your choices for EV are loaded up with all the options the car company can provide. Higher rebates or subsidies to at least cover those option costs would go a long way to help push the EV idea.

Charging station terra mapping/counts support the future "palatability" of electric vehicles. Tesla has set up its first coast-to-coast charging station route. It's battery plant is geared up for mega outputs for future applications.

Here's something that a local group called the San Joaquin Valley Electric Vehicle Partnership is doing to help promote the adoption of electric vehicles, ev infrastructure, education and job training.... http://www.electriccarpledge.com/electric-vehicles-driving-effort-to-clean-up-the-san-joaquin-valleyrs-polluted-air/

Very true tominga about the 200 mile range...that seems to the magic number for an affordable 100% EV. However, it's all relative to your driving needs...for many people...100 mile range is perfect. We'll get there. There's news everyday about new battery technology and the auto makers are making a concerted effort to increase battery range. Also, it's that as we build out the charging station infrastructure, the ranges will increase...decreasing the need for higher ranges. And it's not just any charging stations that we need...they should be Level 3 so that charges can take place in 15 minutes or less.

The CO2 emission impacts of EVs will vary with the power generation system in place. The proposal should at least acknowledge that and in principle also push for less CO2 emission electricity generation. This appears very similar to activities already undertaken by the U.S. DOE. the DOE has a workplace charging challenge underway and the Alternative Fuels Data Center has links to most of the information you are proposing. There are a few interesting, unique ideas to promote EVs. I like the picture idea; early adopters are frequently motivated by the desire to be "green" and be seen having the latest technology, i.e, one reason why the Prius vastly outsold all other HEVs that were based on and looked like conventional vehicles. The cost is minimal and every little bit helps. Please keep up the work. This should be easy to implement, I would have hoped for a bit more innovative ideas to promote EVs and charging stations, but well, we have to start somehow. Sometimes simple ideas can be powerful.EVs are a key component in a comprehensive sustainable energy transition strategy. This pledge, if administered correctly, is a low-cost, high visibility way of increasing awareness to the public but also to the officials and businesses for the demand of EVs and the necessity of associated infrastructure.It complements the eRev proposal nicely. The authors only proposed to increase the EV benefit awareness in order to increase EV diffusion. Therefore, they did not propose any real innovation. Moreover the EV diffusion is limited so far by more challenging structural problems which are not faced at all.

Hi , kindly consider voting for my proposal shown on this link. https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1300206/planId/1002 Thanks.