![]() ![]() “The mandate would fall mostly on the poor,” Kelly said. There are other problems with an electric vehicle mandate according to Kelly, like the high price. “Everyone can find their own cheapest way to comply, and that keeps the cost of regulation down,” Kelly remarked. Such a tax would incentivize both consumers and producers to avoid emitting elements that are detrimental to the environment. “It just says if you use carbon you pay a penalty, and it’s up to you to find the cheapest way around that.” “A carbon tax doesn’t pick any winners,” he said. Kelly proposed an alternative approach to reducing emissions, like a tax on coal, or even a tax on carbon. For example, coal-fired plants often provide the energy to power electric vehicles. The energy and machinery used to produce and sustain electric vehicles produce greenhouse gas emissions, which constitute the car’s overall life-cycle emissions. Unlike direct emissions, which come from the vehicle itself, life-cycle emissions vary depending on multiple factors. There are no direct emissions spewing from the back of Kelly’s Tesla, but his car still produces life-cycle emissions. They produce less CO₂ emissions than gas-powered vehicles, but how much less remains unclear. “So, if the goal is to reduce carbon emissions or other pollutants, then electric vehicles are unlikely to be that.”Įxactly how effective electric vehicles are in reducing greenhouse gas emissions lacks a definitive answer. “You have to think about what is the lowest cost way to get where we want to go,” Kelly said. Kelly, who is academic director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Business Program, researches environmental economics and policy-and he drives a Tesla. One of those outstanding questions is: Does an electric vehicle mandate actually help address a warming climate? David Kelly, professor of economics at the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School, said that official order is probably not the most efficient solution for addressing climate change. While 15 years may seem like plenty of time, there are still many obstacles and outstanding questions before the future of transportation goes fully green. Newsom said he was “advancing a strategy to address head on.” In the weeks leading up to the announcement, dozens of unprecedented wildfires tore through California, pushing the state to the frontlines of the battle against a warming climate. He signed an executive order that said all new cars and trucks sold in the state must be zero-emission by 2035. and France, have already pledged to phase out traditional combustion engines. A growing number of them are crossing intersections, and several governments, like the U.K. Today, mass proliferation of these automobiles has shifted from fantasy to reality. Several years ago the idea of city streets filled entirely with electric vehicles might have seemed far-fetched. ![]()
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