If we eliminated 93% of cars in a city and replaced the remaining 7% with emission free self driving EVs, we would use the same amount of electricity to get the same number of miles, without overloading the grid.
The same amount of electricity used to drill, frack, extract, refine, transport and pump 15 gallons of gas into your tank, will power an EV for 300 miles. Instead of making gas, we charge EVs.
Most cars are parked 95% of the time. The average driver logs 200 miles per week. For 10,000 cars that adds up to 2,000,000 miles per week. You can deliver the same 2,000,000 miles with 700 emission free autonomous EVs running 12 hours, 7 days, averaging 35 mph, logging 2,850 miles per week.
In ten years it may not be necessary to own a car. Let’s connect the dots.
- People already use ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft as an alternative to car ownership.
- Tesla is selling self driving cars today.
- Public transportation in some cities offer custom rides in small passenger vans.
- Public transportation in some cities already operate driverless light rail systems.
Imagine driverless cars that will:
- Come when you call them on your phone
- Drive you quietly from door to door
- Charge you only for the miles you ride
- Imagine no longer having:
- down payments
- loan payments
- insurance payments
- traffic tickets
- repairs
- gas money
- bus stops
Imagine cities, counties or states operating fleets of autonomous electric vehicles.
- They compliment medium distance light rail by delivering the last miles.
- They are far less expensive to fuel and maintain than buses or trains
- There reduce the need to expand expensive tracks, bus or train stations
- They will improve air quality in highly populated areas