Electrification Coalition Says 1.9 Million New Jobs Will be Created From Adoption of EVs

Following on the heels of their ‘Electrification Roadmap‘ — a comprehensive document written in conjunction with global consulting group PRTM that details how to best shift our transportation sector to plug-in vehicles over the next couple of decades — the Electrification Coalition has just completed an analysis that finds huge benefits to the US economy would result from implementing most of the policies and strategies outlined in the document.

Chief among these benefits would be a strengthening and broadening of high paying manufacturing, travel, tourism, and professional jobs… to the tune of an additional 1.9 million of them by 2030. And now we can all add just one more reason why switching to a high-tech, innovation-based, green jobs focus in this country would do us a world of good.

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