Currently most vehicles run on gasoline or diesel, spewing carbon dioxide as well as other toxic pollutants into the air. Running vehicles on electricity instead not only reduces harmful impacts on the Earth’s climate and human health, it also reduces the cost of maintaining vehicles.

Electric vehicles are currently more expensive than internal combustion vehicles, largely due to the battery cost and the high demand relative to supply. Extracting the minerals needed for batteries has adverse environmental impacts. In addition, the needed infrastructure – charging stations, an electric grid able to handle added demand, battery supply chains, and battery recycling options – is still under development, creating a potential bottleneck to wide-scale adoption of electric vehicles.

Governments can encourage consumer demand for electric vehicles through strategic use of rebates, reduced taxes, preferential access to parking/driving lanes, and other policy measures. On the supply side, they can provide subsidies that speed manufacturing as well as development of the needed infrastructure. They will need to take care, however, to provide broad support for the transition, so workers and businesses that depend on the status quo are not left in the dust.

When you take this action, if there are 2–3 Incentive tags in this card's stack, increase your electricity demand by 1 and remove 1 Transportation Emissions token from your player board. If there are 4 or more Incentive tags in this card's stack, increase your electricity demand by 1 and remove 1 Transportation or Industry Emissions token from your player board.
You may take this action once per Regulation tag in this card's stack each round.

• Electric Cars (Project Drawdown)

• Government Incentives for Plug-in Electric Vehicles (Wikipedia)

• Take advantage of EV incentives available to you.

• Share information about subsidies with others in your circle of influence.

• Show your support for government policies that promote EV adoption.