Transportation in Germany accounts for around 20 percent of total carbon dioxide emissions. With 95% of fuel used in the transportation sector derived from fossil fuels, there is much room for improvement. According to Giovanni Dubon, the solution to this is electrifying the transportation sector. Germany’s transportation sector, compared to the United States, is already more sustainable. Germans drive fewer kilometres, emit less CO2 per capita, use more public transit per capita, and suffer less traffic fatalities than Americans. Sustainable public transit proves to be indispensable in mobility and results from integrated transportation and land-use policies. The next step is to replace internal combustion engines with battery electric vehicles and develop the infrastructure needed to support these vehicles. Germany has developed the “National Electromobility Development Plan,” which centers on an ambitious goal to have 1 million BEV on the road by 2020. By the end of 2014, only 20,000 electric vehicles were actually registered. With such a huge disparity in numbers, can Germany reach its goal? The optimistic answer is yes, but not by 2020 … Continue reading Electric vehicles will drive Germany’s Energiewende