MAINE PUBLIC • December 27, 2021
Vehicles are responsible for most of the greenhouse gas emissions in Maine. One goal in the state's climate change response plan is to get more electric vehicles on the road. There are currently only about 6,000, which is a 90% increase from just a couple years ago. But it's still a drop in the bucket compared to the 219,000 the state wants to see in use by the end of the decade. Michael Stoddard, executive director of Efficiency Maine, says that would mean one of every six cars on the road would be electric. Maine Public's news team opted to lease, to learn more about electric vehicles and to reduce our carbon footprint while reporting this statewide series.