{"id":2628,"date":"2023-05-20T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:30:02","slug":"transportation-and-ee-electric-vehicles-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/programs\/energy-efficiency\/transportation-and-ee-electric-vehicles-ev\/","title":{"rendered":"Transportation and Electric Vehicles (EV)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Transportation accounts for almost 50% of New Jersey\u2019s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.&nbsp; The most effective way to save energy and reduce GHG emissions is in the transportation sector and the most efficient way to do that is with an EV.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A typical internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle owner will drive about 14,000 miles per year.&nbsp; At 25 mpg they would use about 560 gallons of gasoline per year or about 65,000,000 Btus of energy at a cost of about $1,200 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A typical EV uses 0.3 kWh per mile.&nbsp; The EV would use about 4,200 kWh to drive 14,000 miles per year or about 14,000,000 Btus at a cost of about $715 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A gallon of gasoline releases 20 pounds of CO2.&nbsp; 560 gallon of gasoline releases 11,200 pound of CO2 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A kWh in New Jersey releases 0.54 pounds of CO2.&nbsp; 4,200 kWh of electricity releases 2,270 pounds of CO2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, an ICE vehicle converts about 20% of its energy in the tank to motion of the vehicle. The EV converts about 60% of its energy in the battery to motion of the vehicle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The most effective EE tip \u2013 get an EV<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation accounts for almost 50% of New Jersey\u2019s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.&nbsp; The most effective way to save energy and reduce GHG emissions is in the transportation sector and the most efficient way to do that is with an EV. A typical internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle owner will drive about 14,000 miles per year.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11146,"featured_media":2629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-efficiency","category-in-your-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6646,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/6646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}