Car/Vehicle

Vehicle fuel use currently dominates the average household's energy use, responsible for 69% of the total household energy use (when including both appliances and vehicle fuels.)

The average car drives approximately 12,500 kilometres per year, using a significant amount of fuel to do so. As shown in the emissions section earlier, vehicle use is the largest area of emissions in the households category, closely followed by electricity use, primarily because the current electricity is provided by a fossil fuel-powered grid. This demonstrates how vital it is that we not only electrify our household appliances, but also our vehicles.

Electric vehicles are approximately 3.5 times more efficient at converting energy into motion, and therefore unlock significant energy savings per household, and significant long-term cost savings when fueled by (or charged with) cheap renewable electricity. Even charging an electric vehicle with the existing electricity grid will approximately halve fueling costs, and if we charge our electric vehicles with our rooftop solar and home battery, we are looking at around ~67% savings in our fueling costs.