I received an email from Blink (the maker of our two Level 2 chargers) about how things are going with the EV Project. In case you’re new to the blog, the EV Project is the government funded project to supply Level 2 chargers free of charge in certain areas of the country. That’s how we got our two chargers.
Basically, they’re emailing everyone to let them know how the EV Project is helping the environment and to make us feel cool.
Members of the EV Project:
- Drive 155,000 miles per day (equivalent to driving around the world 6 times!)
- Saved over 2 million gallons of gas.
- Kept over 3,713 metric TONS of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere.
I’m feeling pretty proud of myself. Seriously though, I do think all of us driving electric cars, buying wind-generated electricity and/or putting up solar panels are making the world a better place. We are paying a premium for doing this. The green industries, for the most part, and especially with electric vehicles, have not yet attained the economies of scale to make this as inexpensive as it will assuredly become.
Being on the ‘bleeding edge,’ we’re paying a premium to kick start a revolution. Our federal (and in some cases state governments, but not Texas) are anteing up to kick start this as well. I’m happy that, if our government felt money had to be spent to stimulate the economy, then rather than spend it to find out why cow dung doesn’t smell nice, they decided to spend it developing electric vehicles and charging infrastructure.
We’re buying the equivalent of 1972 hand held electronic calculators, so eventually we’ll all be able to have really cool calculators that are much less inexpensive.
and we get to be the cool kids, with the fancy calculators, that everyone envies… for now.
