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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

Plug in America

EVs are Better for the Grid Electric vehicles are essentially mobile power storage that can get us where we need to go. It also protects drivers from the price volatility at the pump. EVs are Eligible for Federal, State, and Utility Incentives The Inflation Reduction Act extended and expanded federal tax incentives for EVs.

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

Green Car Congress

billion, helped by the recovery in sector share prices between mid-2012 and March 2014, and by the popularity with investors of US “yieldcos” and their European equivalents, quoted project funds. Another challenge was, at first sight, the impact of the 50%-plus collapse in the oil price in the second half of last year.

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