U.S. Department of Energy Report: Achieve Millions of Electric Vehicle Goals in 2015

The U.S. Department of Energy released a report on the 8th that the U.S. government plans to introduce a new strategy to achieve the goal of President Obama’s proposal to have 1 million electric cars by 2015.

In his State of the Union Address speech last month, Obama proposed that by 2015 the United States must become the world’s first country with more than one million electric vehicles. David Sandalo, assistant secretary of international affairs and domestic policy of the US Department of Energy, said that this goal "is to reduce the United States' important component of the external oil dependency strategy, which will ensure that the U.S. has a leading position in the electric vehicle production industry. ".

The report said that in order to achieve this goal, the Obama administration is ready to propose a new strategy with three parts: First, convert the current tax deduction policy for purchasing electric vehicle owners to $7,500 into a direct car reduction so that the owner can Buying a car directly enjoys price reductions without having to wait for tax refunds; second, increasing R&D investment in electric vehicle related technologies in the fiscal year 2012 budget; and third, rewarding communities supporting electric vehicle development to encourage community investment Electric vehicle infrastructure construction.

The report said that although Obama's goal is "ambitious", but in the case of strong measures, this goal can be achieved. The report also pointed out that although the entire industry's production capacity is not a constraint to achieve this goal, it still needs to take additional measures to further reduce costs and stimulate consumer demand.