The Electrification Roadmap endeavors to serve a practical function: to provide a public policy guide to transforming the US light-duty ground transportation system from one that is oil-dependent to one powered almost entirely by electricity.

The need for such a document arises from the tremendous difficulty of the task. The goal of deploying more than 200 million electric-powered vehicles is ambitious and should not be understated. The envisioned change demands synchronized deployment of new vehicles and infrastructure on a massive scale. The existing ground transportation system represents a century of private investment and government regulation, and fundamentally altering this system requires an exceedingly careful and thorough planning process, to which this report seeks to make a helpful contribution.