Posts Tagged by electric trucks
May’s Webinar: Electric Trucks
| May 23, 2012 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
Sorry for the last-minute notice, but if you’re available tomorrow at 1 PM EDT (10 AM PDT), and you’re looking for some insight into the electric vehicle market (electric trucks in particular), please join Dr. Brooks Agnew, CEO of Vision Motor Cars, and me for our monthly webinar.
In contrast to most entrepreneurs in this space, Brooks comes from the auto manufacturing world; he’s been at the helm of the launches of a great number of the “Big Three’s” best-loved models over the years. I’ve known him for a few years now — even took a test drive in an early prototype. Personally, I think he’s a good bet to repeat his success here in electric transportation – but I’ll let you come to your own conclusion on that one.
Hope you can join us. Here’s the sign-up sheet:
2GreenEnergy Video Report: Electric Vehicles — Using Market Research Processes to Gauge Market Size
| April 30, 2011 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
In this episode of the 2GreenEnergy Video Report, I discuss the use of market research to gauge the overall size of a target market.
Vision Motors and Its Insights into the Electric Vehicle Market
| January 14, 2011 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
Vision Motors is in the process of bringing us on board to do some marketing work for them. This will truly be a labor of love; I can’t wait to sink my teeth into the task of promoting a company with a terrific product that, I believe, will essentially sell itself.
I developed an instant affinity for the company’s CEO, Brooks Agnew, when I first met him in Charlotte, NC last year. He’s sharp, likeable, treats people well, and carries himself with a bearing of success. It’s always best to work with people that you personally respect and admire.
Here’s a paper he just sent me that explains the company’s approach. I think readers will find it quite informative about the nature of the electric vehicle market and the direction that he (and I) believe it will be taking. Read More
Focusing on Trucks at the French-American EV Technology Conference
| December 8, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
75% of the total fuel consumption on our roads comes from commercial vehicles, and therefore an increase of a few miles per gallon in large trucks has a massive effect on reducing the environmental impact of moving our stuff around. This makes the hybridization or electrification of large trucks a high priority for those concerned about the eco-friendliness of our large-vehicle fleets.
I was interested to learn of the developments in trucking made by Eaton — most of which are fairly technical innovations in drive trains. But they presented one thing at the French-American EV Technology Conference this morning that I had forgotten to consider: Read More
2GreenEnergy – Checking Out Sustainability-Related Businesses on the East Coast
| August 8, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
Sorry to have been absent from the blogosphere for a bit here.
Thursday I was standing in a dairy in Northern Virginia surrounded by hundreds of cows — checking out a methane digester, talking about waste-to-energy, and how feed-in tariffs and carbon credits change the game for dozens of different types of farmers. A few minutes later a thundershower swept in and drove us to cover, but not before a bolt of lightning struck almost directly over our heads. I thought we were goners, but we were spared. Maybe the Man Upstairs recognized that we were trying to do something good down here.
After the meeting, I took my rental car a couple of hundred miles south, through the stunningly beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Friday found me in Charlotte, NC talking to some extremely seasoned auto execs about their business plan concerning practical and very affordable electric pick-up trucks. They lament, as do I, that exactly zero dollars of the stimulus money went to start-up EV companies, and that 31 of the 32 grants went to companies over $1 billion in revenues — despite the promises that the core concept was to create growth in nimble and innovative businesses.
I’m in Syracuse, NY right now, preparing for my meetings tomorrow; the discussion centers around paper made from sugar cane waste — affordable, high-quality paper that leaves the world’s trees standing. This trip’s first two meetings were very quite productive — but this has the potential to be the best of the three.
Home tomorrow night.
