Planetizen Makes A Case For Electric Vehicles, Sarasota
In early 2011, President Obama declared a goal of putting 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.
Compact, low-speed Neighborhood Electric Vehicles could be part of the equation, according to a Planetizen article by Lisa Nisenson of Nisenson Consulting in Sarasota.
NEVs have the potential to reduce urban sprawl by influencing developers to make neighborhoods more functional while reducing the road footprint. NEVs also introduce new types of transit and augment transit that already exists.
Read the complete story.
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