Report Cover with title, 'Electric Drive by ‘25: How California Can Catalyze Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles by 2025' with an image of cars and Bank of America, CLEE, and UCLA Law logos

Electric Drive by ‘25: How California Can Catalyze Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles by 2025

Author(s)

Ethan Elkind, Steven Weissman

Publication Date

September 2012

Program(s)

Keyword(s)

Archive, Convening, Transportation and Mobility, Vehicle Electrification

Overview

California will need mass consumer adoption of electric vehicles to meet its long-term energy and environmental goals and to improve its economy. As of May 2012, plug-in electric vehicles comprised approximately 30,000 of the cars in the United States, more than four times as many as the year before. Yet challenges remain to adoption. At the workshop that produced this report, stakeholders came together to discuss solutions and major challenges.