World EV Cities and Ecosystems Conference Launched
-Today, The Global Electric Vehicle Insight Exchange (EVX) debuts at the World EV Cities and Ecosystems Conference, launching the first international EV City Casebook and web portal to accelerate the global push toward cleaner, electrified transportation.
-A partnership between leading global electric vehicle (EV) readiness initiatives—Rocky Mountain Institute's Project Get Ready, The Clean Energy Ministerial Electric Vehicles Initiative (EVI), The International Energy Agency (IEA), Task 18 of IEA's Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Implementing Agreement, and the University of California, Davis Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center—EVX pools resources and expertise from an international network of cities and regions to identify the best ways to capture the benefits of EVs such as energy security, economic development and environmental health.
-Major urban areas around the world have committed to make electric mobility a reality, and are ambitiously pushing toward deployment goals using innovative policy measures and programs. Due largely to these efforts, about 40,000 EVs/PHEVs were sold worldwide in 2011—more than any year in history.
-But, with cumulative national targets for EV/PHEV sales adding up to almost 6 million by 2020, there is still a long way to go.
-The EV City Casebook and World EV Cities and Ecosystems Web Portal—both of which are the result of collaboration under EVX—aim to aid the exchange of international best practices to accelerate global EV adoption.
