What benefits does electrified transportation provide?
Electrification provides several key advantages: • Reduces oil use – Transportation demand accounts for over 70% of total U.S. oil use, 61% of which is used to power the light duty vehicle fleet. Nationally, less than 3% of electricity is produced with oil. Shifting from oil to electricity directly cuts oil use. If by 2025 35% of Washington’s light duty vehicle fleet1 were PHEVs able to go 20 miles on a charge, 580 million of gallons of oil could be saved per year2. The full build out of a Truck Stop Electrification network on the West Coast and the retrofit of 15,000 trucks with on-board idle reduction kits would save close to 100 million gallons of oil per year3. • Reduces energy imports – Electrification firms up national and state economies by replacing imports with domestic energy production. The U.S. imported oil bill for 2006 is estimated at $329 billion, more than one-third the total trade deficit4. Washington State in 2006 paid an estimated $9.29 billion for oil from beyond st
