The automobile industry’s progress in developing and producing all-electric cars is humming along.
For example, see this story about the Leaf, the car Nissan expects to roll-out globally in 2011. As an all-electric vehicle it uses no gas and produces no greenhouse gases.
Of course, the cleaner the source of the electricity, the smaller the amount of in-direct emissions produced. That’s one more reason for power companies to aggressively increase their production of electricity from the sun, wind and other clean alternatives to coal, et cetera.
Despite GM’s financial troubles, it is said to be still committed to producing its own electric car, the Chevy Volt, starting next fall. Good for GM for sticking with this ambitious project.
And on a side note about the government’s Cash for Clunkers — let’s just hope consumers are buying vehicles with much better gas mileage than required by law. The minimum required mpg improvements for SUVS and trucks are embarrassingly tiny.
If you apply to receive a $3,500 or more credit from the feds for a new vehicle, for Pete’s sake — get one that gets at least 10 mpg more than your current ride.
Each mpg improvement per vehicle, multiplied by thousands of vehicles, can help reduce our dependency on oil of the domestic and foreign variety while greatly reducing pollution.