Seattle ’s Mayor Ed Murray wants to dramatically increase electric vehicle ( EV ) usage in the city to 15k cars by 2025 in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions from the city ’s vehicle fleet . The development plan " Drive Clean “ " was announced at the Climate Leadership Summit in Seattle , proposing to electrify more of the city ’s public electric vehicles as well as promoting the use of private EVs and increasing the city ’s carbon neutral , hydro - power electric energy . Murray hopes that the green alternative with replace around 500 K gallons of fuel burned in the city fleet each year .
Seattle’s mayor Ed Murray wants to dramatically increase electric vehicle (EV) use in the city to 15k cars by 2025 in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions from the city’s vehicle fleet. The development plan "Drive Clean“ strategy was announced at the Climate Leadership Conference in Seattle, proposing to electrify more of the city’s public transport vehicles as well as promoting the use of private EVs and using the city’s carbon neutral, hydro-power electric energy. Murray hopes that the green alternative with replace around 120K gallons of fuel burned in the city fleet each year.