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The future is here with electric vehicles! Automobiles, above all else, represent America's addiction to dirty oil. Plug-in electric vehicles (EVs), which require no gasoline and emit no pollution from their tailpipes, present a critical opportunity to slash pollution, reduce dependence on oil, create American jobs, and improve national security. To drive this change, the Sierra Club has launched a national campaign to promote electric vehicles -- just as new EV models are hitting the roads.
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Sierra Club's Go Electric Campaign
Each year, American passenger cars and trucks spew upwards of three trillion tons of carbon pollution into the air by burning 121 billion gallons of gasoline. These emissions are from both the vehicle tailpipes and the "upstream" emissions from extracting, refining, and transporting oil on the way to our vehicles. Our dangerous dependence on oil has resulted in catastrophes like the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico and, every day, we send more than $500,000,000 abroad to pay for oil, increasing our national debt and dependence on many nations hostile to our policies.
More Electric Vehicle Facts
News and Media
May, 2012: Sierra Club Compass
Plugging into the Focus
April, 2012: Sierra Club Compass
Thousands Got Revenge this Month
April, 2012: Sierra Club Compass
New Consumer-Friendly Report on Climate Benefits of EVs
April, 2012: Sierra Club Compass
Husband and Wife: Volt and Leaf
March, 2012: Sierra Club Compass
Electrifying Utility Fleets
March, 2012: Sierra Club
Environmental Groups ask USGBC to retain EV LEED credit
March, 2012: Sierra Club Compass
President Obama's Drive Toward Electric
February, 2012: Media Matters for America
Myths and Facts About Electric Cars
February, 2012: Sierra Club Compass
Electric Vehicles in the Media
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Revenge!
Sierra Club has been pleased to promote the film "Revenge of the Electric Car." This documentary goes behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars.
The film is from Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car?
Revenge describes the bright future electric vehicles can have in the U.S., and introduces us to four men racing to be the first to bring electric vehicles to the general public.
Check out www.revengeoftheelectriccar.org to see about viewing opportunities. Also, you can see a one minute film by the filmmaker thanking the more than 200 Sierra Club supporters for hosting Revenge watch parties.
Watch the official trailer