Please take the Electric Vehicle pledge for Montgomery County
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stephan.sylvan
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Please join the hundreds of county residents who've already signed the EV pledge by going to Montgomery County government's EV pledge website below:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-bEBbuWxc0Csl3eAaaCtZFYxKdoNvQROnEk__8uNrKZUOFU2RzFWOFU0Mkc5TFZCOUtFSFVHRjFWOC4u Please ask your family, friends, colleagues, and relatives in the county to take the pledge too. The more pledges are made, the more incentives car dealerships will have to purchase & stock EVs. Please take the pledge even if you are committed to purchasing an electric vehicle in the future when the prices come down, when there are more models available, etc. Please take the pledge if you currently own an EV or hybrid and commit to purchasing an EV in the future. This is an initiative of the new Montgomery County EVPC (EV Purchasing Cooperative) in partnership with EVADC (Electric Vehicle Association of Greater DC) and managed by the Electrification Coalition. For more info, see the county's EVPC webpage and the press release webpage below. https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/green/zev/index.html https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=39884 Thank you! Stephan |
Anonymous
| Jesus Christ this county… |
Anonymous
This county what? If you're not interested, don't sign. (I'm not OP). |
Anonymous
| I'd like to see people pledging to get rid of their cars. |
Anonymous
| Are you buying us the EV? If so, that would be great. |
Anonymous
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We don’t have the generating capacity (not too mention solar and wind) to meet market demands if everyone switches to an EV.
It’s just not there. Electricity doesn’t just exist because you want it to. |
Anonymous
| We have hybrids and can charge our cars basically off the solar panels we installed—even though we were considered not a good candidate for solar because we are west facing with tree coverage and only could cover about a third of our energy use. But that’s enough to cover our cars and then some. |
Anonymous
Clear cutting the rainforest to mine nickel and other precious metals to make the ev batteries and other electronics is not as cool as everyone here overlooks. See what nickel mining is doing to indigenous people and rainforests. |
Anonymous
Here is just one source: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-scramble-for-ev-battery-metals-is-just-beginning-11638443405 Making the global economy more environmentally sustainable will require a lot more natural resources. This is an irony the mining industry will need both to exploit and to defuse. Electric vehicles highlight the problematic opportunity for miners. Although a Tesla or Porsche Taycan doesn’t have a tailpipe and usually generates much less carbon than a traditional car over a multiyear lifespan, its big lithium-ion battery requires more metal than an internal combustion engine. Consulting firm Rystad Energy expects annual lithium demand from EVs and energy storage to rise by a factor of more than 20 times by 2030 compared with last year’s level. Lithium-ion batteries also contain cobalt, nickel, copper and aluminum. And this isn’t just about batteries: Solar panels, wind turbines, charging stations and the grid infrastructure to tie them together will all need masses of metal. There is talk of a new “supercycle,” with specialist stocks such as lithium miner Albemarle pricing in astronomical growth. |
Anonymous
| Wouldn't it be better to encourage people to drive less? Someone driving 30K miles a year in an EV isn't really more environmental than someone driving 5K miles a year in a gas car. Plus, if they have a gas car, its less environmental to get rid of that car and buy/build a new one. |
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Montgomery County should focus on the things it can control and not the things it cannot.
It’s quite arrogant to believe that Montgomery County can influence production of EVs. Want to promote EVs in the county? Why not mandate developers install electric car chargers in all new developments? Why not give property tax credits for business that install public charging stations? There is a lot that the county can do to influence and facilitate EV uptake, particularly to make it easier to own an EV. Why not focus on that instead? |
Anonymous
| why don't you pressure the county to give a refundable tax credit that would make the EVs comparable in price to the alternative gas car that a consumer would buy? That would only be....what....$20K? |
Anonymous
So how to propose we get around? Not counting metro. I 'm talking where you there is no nearby metro/bus etc. Have you given up your car? |
Anonymous
+1 Where do people think all this electricity would come from to power a fleet of EVs in the county, and then some if more and more residents get EVs? I'm not against EV, but a mad dash to convert to EV only when we don't have the capacity to fuel these EVs is not prudent. I live in an area that consistently loses power, and not just because of weather. Plus, I hope people realize that the EV graveyard is worse than the gas powered graveyard. Those batteries and electronic parts are more toxic than components from a gas powered car. |
Anonymous
It’s interesting to contrast this with bicycles. The county spends millions a year to install bike lanes that get used by a few hundred people. They county will not invest a single dollar into promoting consumer EV uptake by residents, despite being the future of transportation. But will commit to spending hundreds of millions on EV buses? They’d get more bang for their buck taking the money from bike lanes and allocating it to EVs and then asking people to pledge to ride their bikes more often. |