In 2010, the San Francisco branch was a large group of Climate Leadership, an association of the largest cities in the world have recognized that climate change requires global action, but did not wait for others to act. Many of these cities, including San Francisco, argue that electric vehicles could make an important contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and trying to encourage their adoption, among other things, promote the construction of vehicle charging points in homes, workplaces, and public on street parking spaces and garages. If the plans of San Francisco makes sense or not, depended on how difficult it would be to convince consumers to buy electric vehicles and as a result of significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will be. This case is designed to support a discussion of the options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles in urban planning, environmental and transportation policy course. It can also be used to illustrate the application of discounts and the concept of public goods and externalities. HKS Case Number 1932.0 "Hide
by Jose Gomez-Ibanez, Yennga Khuong 20 pages. Publication Date: August 26, 2010. Prod. #: HKS132-PDF-ENG