Senior Energy Analyst Glenn Doty writes on the subject of large electric vehicles: While I was clear in my praise for the electric buses, (large electric trucks represent) the opposite case: One of the avenues of lowest net gain for …
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Regenerative Braking
A friend wants my comment on a device that would somehow help large trucks achieve regenerative braking. While I don’t know the details, I point out: I’m concerned that this won’t work as well in the real world as you …
Removing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy
The petition at left begins: “Postmaster General Louis DeJoy needs to be held accountable for his actions to undermine an electric postal fleet.” To be sure. He needs to be removed, and prosecuted for the deliberate and extensive damage he’s …
Fire the U.S. Postmaster–TODAY
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s message here is especially on target now that the USPS is in the process of replacing its entire fleet of postal trucks–get this–with gasoline powered drive trains. That’s right, we’ve finally reached the tipping point …
Natural Resources Defense Council Protects the Environment
Here’s a blurb on the interview I conducted with Johanna Wald from the Natural Resources Defense Council for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies. Her job was (she’s since retired) to use the court system to force public and …
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Finding the Truth about Plant- and Lab-Based Meat
Here’s my friend, the suspicious dog, one more time. Like him, I feel that I’m being lied to frequently, e.g., when I come across articles like this one, focused on discrediting lab-based meat.
Electrifying Class 8 Trucks
A reader sent me this video, in which an ostensible expert in equities trading raves about the merits of purchasing stock in Hyliion, a start-up that claims that future sales of its electric drivetrain for Class 8 trucks is going …
BYD’s Electric Buses
From BYD (Build Your Dreams): The Los Angeles Department of Transportation has ordered 130 of its battery-electric K7M buses, the largest single order of battery-electric buses to date in the United States. The order is a major milestone for BYD …
Here’s an EV that Never Needs Recharging–No Lie
As I’ve written dozens of times in the past, regenerative braking for electric vehicles is mostly bs. When we calculate the amount of kinetic energy that we covert to heat in our cars’ and trucks’ braking systems and compare that …
A Contributed Post: Battery Testing Equipment Is Increasingly Being Used in Motorcycle EV Development
The Motorcycle Battery Monitoring System The desire for electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing rapidly. Demand for EV motorcycles is following the same pattern, meaning the industry needs to act fast. The industry recognises that this means the battery management system (BMS) …
