Electric Vehicles Help Combat Climate Change, Here’s Why.

There is tremendous uncertainty about what policies the federal government will change that will affect electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing and sales in the US. But there is no question about the impact that EVs will have on reducing climate-changing emissions. Replacing gasoline with electricity greatly reduces the carbon emissions from driving, even when emissions from mining, manufacturing, and generating electricity are included. Based on where EVs have been sold, driving the average electric vehicle in the US produces global warming emissions equal to a hypothetical 100 mile per gallon gasoline car, or one fourth the emissions from driving the average new gasoline vehicle.

Transportation is the largest sector for emissions and passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs are the majority of emissions from this sector, so there is no way to slow down climate change without a…