FAQ

• It saves cus­tomers mon­ey. Fill­ing up an elec­tric vehi­cle is cheap­er than fuel­ing a tra­di­tion­al car.
• The envi­ron­ment will ben­e­fit. Wide­spread adop­tion of elec­tric vehi­cles will cut emis­sions.
• Ener­gy inde­pen­dence. Elec­tric vehi­cles reduce our depen­dence on for­eign oil and will lead to more local jobs.

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A lot can change in a year, but based on cur­rent fuel prices, prob­a­bly 4 years. There are more mod­els becom­ing avail­able and as bat­tery prices improve, the time­frame could short­en.

• Back in 2007, YEC began col­lect­ing data.
• YEC also col­lab­o­rat­ed with Duke on their plans and data col­lec­tion; Duke ener­gy cur­rent­ly has one of the nation’s largest fleets of plug-in elec­tric vehi­cles and plug-in hybrid elec­tric cars for research and devel­op­ment pur­pos­es. This includes vehi­cles from Toy­ota, Tes­la, Ford, Gen­er­al Motors, Chrysler, Nis­san, and the Southeast’s first plug-in hybrid elec­tric util­i­ty “buck­et” truck.
• In 2013, YEC devel­oped an over­all elec­tric vehi­cle plan to include beta sites for in-home charg­ers and spe­cial elec­tric rates to incen­tivize vehi­cle charg­ing on non-peak times.
• In 2014, YEC imple­ment­ed an elec­tric-vehi­­cle rate.