{"id":64893,"date":"2023-01-29T06:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T11:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64893"},"modified":"2023-01-29T06:55:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T11:55:50","slug":"an-ev-in-every-driveway-is-an-environmental-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64893","title":{"rendered":"An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThere is always a huge climate benefit \u2014 and, I would argue, a safety benefit \u2014 to ensuring people have access to excellent public transit,\u201d Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said earlier this month at the Transportation Research Board\u2019s annual meeting. \u201cEven if we weren\u2019t aggressively working to decarbonize existing modes of transportation, that alone is one of the biggest and the best things we can do from a climate perspective.\u201d This is the closest thing to a mic drop that exists at such an event, so the assembled transportation academics, urban planners, and civil engineers erupted into applause. Buttigieg had to pause, letting the hoots fade out before he could finish his remarks. He was onstage with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to announce the\u00a0first blueprint<\/a>\u00a0to decarbonize U.S. transportation by 2050, an unprecedented collaboration between the Departments of Transportation, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental Protection Agency to move the country away from using fossil fuels when, well, moving around.<\/p>\n

Despite its\u00a0many strengths<\/a>, the blueprint is largely built around two things that have very little to do with what got Buttigieg the most applause from transit professionals: It\u2019s heavily reliant on developing technologies that don\u2019t exist yet and the Biden administration\u2019s goal to have half of the new vehicles sold in 2030 to be electric (a figure\u00a0closely negotiated with automakers<\/a>). The latter point is perhaps why the slow but steadily growing number of electric vehicles, or EVs, sold in this country each year has become its own kind of shorthand for the decarbonization revolution. (\u201cElectric Vehicles Keep Defying Almost Everyone\u2019s Predictions<\/a>,\u201d \u201cElectric Vehicle Sales Hit a Tipping Point in 2022<\/a>,\u201d \u201cElectric Vehicles = 10% Of New Vehicle Sales Globally<\/a>!\u201d)…<\/p>\n

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An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental Disaster Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty \u201cThere is always a huge climate benefit \u2014 and, I would argue, a safety benefit \u2014 to ensuring people have access to excellent public transit,\u201d Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said earlier this month at the Transportation Research Board\u2019s annual meeting. \u201cEven if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[141,33644,33645,16960],"class_list":["post-64893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-curbed","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-ev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64894,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64893\/revisions\/64894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}