Even if you’ve never heard of “Electrify Everything,” you’re already part of it.
You conduct more of your life through your phone, computer, and tablet — all powered by electricity. You may not have an EV, but the time is fast approaching it won't make sense to buy a gasoline car instead of an EV. Cordless drills, battery-powered chainsaws, e-bikes, that air fryer you didn’t think you’d use...all have been empowered by a steady groundswell of electrification.
Bit by bit, fossil fuels are retreating from our daily lives. This isn’t happening via some grand revolution; it’s happening because electricity is cleaner, cheaper, and smarter.
Let's look at a few technologies where electricity has pulled far ahead of the competition:
Electric heat pump vs furnace: 4x more efficient
The heaters in our homes have an “efficiency” rating, generally between 0 and 100%. The most efficient oil furnace on the market approaches 90%. The most efficient propane furnace achieves a staggering 98%.
That sounds impressive until you consider that many heat pumps sport efficiencies over 400%.
This doesn’t defy the laws of physics. Heat pumps don’t generate heat, they just move it from one place to another. It’s kind of like transferring money between your bank accounts instead of printing it. A furnace has to make the money. A heat pump just relocates it.
Electric car vs. gas car: 4-5x more efficient
Next time you pump gasoline into your car, remember: only 1 out of 5 gallons you pump is actually propelling your car down the road. The rest is wasted.
At 16 to 25% efficient, internal combustion engines are absolutely spectacular at turning expensive gasoline into waste heat and exhaust fumes. Electric vehicles, on the other hand, convert 80 to 90% of their energy into propulsion. The kicker is that driving an EV is still better for the environment than a gas car even if it's running on an inefficient grid powered by coal — the difference is that stark.
For the range-anxious among you, consider that the average range of an EV has tripled in just ten years — and there are EVs on the road now getting over 600 miles on a charge. All for a car that’s faster, safer, requires almost no maintenance, and doesn’t kill you if you leave it on in your garage.
Induction cooking vs gas: 2x more efficient
Induction cooktops are becoming increasingly popular not just among the climate conscious, but among those who value their time, safety, and disposable income. Plus...it's what professional French culinary schools like Le Cordon Bleu Paris use, so who can argue with that?
The blue flame that blossoms from your gas burners heats the pan above, but more than half of that heat escapes into the surrounding air and into the cooktop. With an induction stove, 90% of the energy goes into the pot or pan. That means better air quality, faster boiling, and less sweating while you cook up a storm.
Your electricity is different, too
You probably didn’t notice the change in the electricity flowing out of your wall sockets.
It is increasingly generated by renewables. Today’s renewable energy is the cheapest form of electricity in history — even with battery storage — and it has been steadily replacing fossil fuels on the grid.
Renewables are cheaper because they require no feedstock. You don’t need to mine coal or frack for natural gas when you’ve got unlimited sun, wind, and geothermal heat. Batteries, which used to rely on conflict- and misery-ridden minerals like cobalt, are now made from readily available (and inflammable) lithium-iron-phosphate.
The answer: electrify your life and generate your own electricity
The way we buy and consume energy has a disproportionate impact on the way we live.
If you heat, drive, and cook with fossil fuels, you’ll never have the opportunity to produce your own fuel. You will always be at the mercy of geopolitics and the petroleum industry.
With electricity, you can escape that system entirely. If you heat, drive, and cook with electricity, you can be your own power plant — solar is more affordable and versatile than ever. Solar carports like the Kingdom Sunport are more than enough to power everything you do, while also looking great and being multi-use.