2022-05-05 Windward Exh C (Item 3 County Council Initiated PL-CCI-2022-001)

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impossible task to expect that all of the 1 million cars in the State or 185,000 cars on Hawaii island they will be able to overnight transform these into electric. So, this is really important. The other thing is optimizing transportation efficiency, and this is a really easy thing to do. It's really about public education and changing habits, so that we can be a bit more less wasteful I should say about our transportation patterns. So, trip planning, carpooling, even just making sure your tires are properly inflated will do a lot to save on transportation dollars. And, of course, we're not saying that we need to do away with a car, the passenger car. There will be a need for that especially here and our recommendation is that if we must drive in a car, let it be an electric car and I'd like to share the reasons for that. Well, as Heather mentioned earlier the key reason is our ability to immediately contribute to climate action and, as you know, transportation emissions are a big contributor to global warming and climate change right which we're all experiencing. Importantly, ground transportation contributes to air pollution, local air pollution and they have consequential health issues and then it keeps us addicted to fossil fuels. I'm sure you may know that a lot of the fossil fuel that we import comes from countries like Libya and until recently Russia. So, our dependence on fossil fuels also contributes to this energy security risk that we all should be concerned about. Lastly, there is an impact to cost of living. There's a lot of price volatility associated with fossil fuels as we see these days and it doesn't help that our traditional vehicles, gas vehicles are very inefficient, and I'll expand on that in a moment here. So, why EVs? Let's zoom in, and I think this dovetail nicely with Heather on your focus on equity. There's a tremendous number of pocketbook benefits right, and this should be available to everybody, not just the well to do. So, the first thing is that, because EVs are very efficient. They're up to 100% efficient, in fact. Because when you slow down the car and you take your foot off the accelerator, you're going downhill and you're just letting off the accelerator. You're actually recharging the battery. You're actually collecting back the energy and transforming that into electricity that goes into the battery. So, you're essentially able to recoup energy that you use when you're propelling the car. On the other hand, gas cars are up to what 30% or so efficient and what that means is that 70% or so of the energy dollars that you put in your gas tank is actually wasted. It's wasted as heat so there's a fueling efficiency component here that everybody should be able to avail on. The other thing that is important is that they're easier to maintain. I've owned an EV since 2011 and one of the cars we have, the original brake pads are still on the car right because you rarely use the brakes. No fuel. I'm sorry no oil changes as Heather mentioned earlier. The cost of ownership total cost of ownership is actually very low compared to a regular gas car. There was a consumer reports study that was published recently, and it showed that the average savings over the lifetime of an EV is around $4,600.00. So again, that is fueling and that's maintenance savings and again everybody should be able to avail of that. So, the other thing I want to highlight here is affordability right it used to be that to be able to afford an EV you needed to be high income, it had to be something for the wealthy. That's quickly change. There are so many different EVs now. They're long range over 150 miles per charge, and they are accessible to everybody. So, the point is I'm trying to make is that with competition, with economies of scale, with policy pressures to decarbonize, and also consumer 12 EXHIBIT C