Resources
Some useful resources related to the e-Drive bill are:
- The text of the e-Drive bill (49 pages, pdf size 230KB). The pdf is also available directly from the General Printing Office.
- e-Drive Bill HR4399 Summary (one page, pdf size 58KB).
- e-Drive Bill HR4399 Graphic (one page, pdf size 719KB).
- Top Reasons to Support e-Drive (one page, pdf size 53KB).
- e-Drive is now on Facebook. Stay in touch with the latest links here.
- On August 5, 2009 in a Recovery Act Announcement, President Obama announced $2.4 Billion in grants to accelerate the Manufacturing and Deployment of the Next Generation of U.S. Batteries and Electric Vehicles. See the full list of award winners (5 pages, pdf size 65KB) and a map of their locations (2 pages, pdf size 371KB).
- In August 2009, the Office of the Inspector General of the USPS published a report, Electrification of Delivery Vehicles (23 pages, pdf size 890KB), on the feasibility of electric vehicles for the Postal Service. The report concluded that using the USPS delivery fleet as a national testbed for vehicle electrification was not only feasible, but also quite desirable.
- In August 2009, the Historian of the USPS published Electric Vehicles in the Postal Service (5 pages, pdf size 364KB).
- In April 2009, Erik Toomre of Mobility Future LLC prepared a presentation for discussion with the USPS titled: "Using Stimulus $ for Postal EV" (19 pages, pdf size 3.7MB). This presentation contains technical and feasibility analysis underlying some of the requirements in the e-Drive bill.
- On February 9, 2009, the New York Times published Plugging in the Postal Service as an Op-Ed Contributor piece by Ruth Goldway, then a member of the United States Postal Regulatory Commission and now its Chairman.
- In November 2007, researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory published an influential report titled: "Impacts Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles on Electric Utilities and Regional U. S. Power Grids, Part 1: Technical Analysis". Key findings include that with the proper changes in the operational paradigm, the existing electric power infrastructure could generate and deliver the necessary energy to fuel 73% of the U.S. light-duty vehicle (LDV) fleet (e.g., with no new power plants). This has an estimated gasoline displacement potential of 6.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, or approximately 52% of the nation’s oil imports. The paper also discusses the impact on overall emissions of criteria gases and greenhouse gases as a result of shifting emissions from millions of individual vehicles to a few hundred power plants.
