Electric Vehicle Charging Station
June 8, 2017
Charge your electric vehicle while you’re at the Commons!
- EVs average $3.48 to go 100 miles. It’s like driving a gas-powered car that gets 71mpg.
- EVs generate no tail pipe emissions. From production to disposal, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions of EVs are much lower, even if the electricity is produced by 100% coal.
- Over their lifetime, electric vehicles cost less to own than gasoline-powered cars.
- Maintenance costs are lower for EVs since there are no oil changes and fewer moving parts involved.
- There are no tail pipe emissions with an electric vehicle. From production to disposal, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions of EVs are much lower, even if the electricity is produced by 100% coal.
- EV’s convert about 60% of the electric energy into acceleration, whereas gasoline engines only convert about 19% of the energy stored in gasoline into moving the car.
- Many more EV charging stations are being built; there are over 500,000 EV’s already on the road.