Inside Our Readers’ Electrified Lives
Inside Our Readers’ Electrified Lives Our Electrifying World is a series about how electrification is creating a more sustainable energy transition. It is sponsored by Rewiring America. F or the past year, this series has documented stories of Americans going electric, their carbon footprints shrinking with each new plug-in vehicle or appliance. Now, as we bring the series to a close, we turned to you, our climate-conscious readers, for your own stories about going electric. Dozens of you responded, sending us anecdotes and photos extolling your electric cars and lawn mowers, lauding your e-bikes, praising your heat pumps and raving about your induction stoves. Here are your submissions by the numbers: 78 of you wrote in to tell us your stories of going electric 37 of those stories included an electric vehicle 34 included a heat pump 22 included an e-bike 20 included an induction stove Watching these stories roll in was like a steady dopamine drip of evidence-based anecdotes showing our world b…