Colorado’s governor boosts electric vehicle use, but isn’t driven in one

Gov. Jared Polis and his administration have encouraged Coloradans to carpool and use electric vehicles to help meet the state’s ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goals. 

But Polis often spends an hour and a half being driven to and from Denver in a hulking, gasoline-powered Chevrolet Suburban. 

Over the past two years, Polis was driven by Colorado State Patrol troopers from his home in Boulder to the Capitol in Denver, the governor’s mansion in Denver or to other locations in Denver more than 235 times, according to his calendars, obtained by the Colorado Sun through a…