Posts Tagged by Paul Scott
Paul Scott of Plug-In America Speaks on the Auto Companies
| June 9, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
Here’s a clip of Paul Scott of Plug-In America talking with me about auto OEMs on the 2GreenEnergy Report.
Full 30-minute show on electric transportation here.
Paul Scott on the Electric Vehicle Adoption Curve
| June 6, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
In this segment of the 2GreenEnergy Report, Plug-In America’s Paul Scott speaks with me on one of my favorite subjects: the Electric Vehicle Adoption Curve. Readers may have noticed that I’ve try to get at this subject “eight ways from Sunday,” and I thought Paul added some terrific insight. See if you agree.
Full 30-minute show on electric transportation here.
Plug-in America’s Paul Scott Discusses Power Utilities on the 2GreenEnergy Report
| June 4, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
Here, Paul Scott from Plug-in America discusses the power utilities and electric transportation on a recent segment of the 2GreenEnergy Report.
Full 30-minute show on electric transportation here.
Paul Scott, Co-founder of Plug-in America, on Electric Transportation and Charging Infrastructure
| June 3, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
Paul Scott, co-founder of Plug-in America, speaks with 2GreenEnergy Report host Craig Shields about electric transportation and charging infrastructure.
Full 30-minute show on electric transportation here.
Paul Scott on the Role of Government in the Migration to Electric Vehicles
| June 2, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
Another clip of Paul Scott’s appearance on The 2GreenEnergy Report. Here, the subject is the role of government in the migration to electric vehicles.
Full 30-minute show on electric transportation here.
Paul Scott Discusses Plug-In America on the 2GreenEnergy Report
| May 31, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
When guest Paul Scott was on the 2GreenEnergy Report recently, I asked him about the organization he co-founded: Plug-In America.
Paul Scott Speaks on the Big Oil Companies
| May 29, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
Here’s another in a series of interview snipets that I conducted with Paul Scott, vice president and co-founder of Plug-In America. Here, we discuss the concept that the big oil companies will fight electric transportation to the death.
Full 30-minute show on electric transportation here.
The EPA Asks: How Much Pollution Do Electric Vehicles Create?
| April 6, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
In his blog, my friend Paul Scott has written a marvelous post on calculating the pollution caused by charging electric vehicles with energy from fossil-fuels. He makes several astute comments and suggestions regarding how the EPA should, in fact, make this determination fairly.
He asks such questions as:
How do you compute the amount of pollution generated from coal and natural gas? Do you take the national average for a kilowatt hour of energy? I’ve read it’s just over one pound of CO2 per kWh. Or do you allow for regional variation? California is among the best in terms of per capita efficiency and a low CO2 grid, and we’ll be the first state to mass adopt EVs. Oregon and Washington have an even cleaner grid and will match CA in per capita EV ownership. Seems only fair to allow for our cleaner grid in the calculations.
In my estimation, a far bigger factor here is that the vast majority of the energy used to charge EVs comes off-peak, where it would largely be wasted (dumped back to ground) anyway. Therefore, even EVs powered by the dirtiest of coal-fired power plants represent very little additional pollution. We could put an estimated 90 million EV on the road this afternoon without the need for a single additional power plant — coal, nuclear, or whatever. Thus this issue, I believe, is largely moot.
But don’t expect the EPA to grasp this point too quickly. These are the same people who are still trying to determine the MPG ratings for a plug-hybrid like the Chevy Volt. Apparently, the fact that this is number that has no possible definition (it could be 50, 500, 5,000 or 50,000 depending on how the car is driven) does not deter them from spending many man-years studying and debating the issue. It makes just as much sense to argue about the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.
In any case, I applaud Paul for his incisive and fair-minded article, and I encourage readers to check it out here.
The Electric Vehicle Adoption Curve
| March 24, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon in a television studio in Ventura, interviewing Plug-In America vice president and co-founder Paul Scott. Paul had generously committed the time, and drove his Toyota RAV-4 EV up from Santa Monica for the occasion. I hope to have the interview chopped up into 3 – 4 minute segments and up on YouTube shortly. A still shot from the studio is below.
I walked away from the process far more hopeful and optimistic than I was when I first sat down. Here’s why:
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Paul Scott and Plug-In America
| February 24, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
I encourage readers who may be interested in electric transportation to sign up for Paul Scott’s blog. Paul is a spokesperson for Plug-In America, and one the great forces for progressive environmental policy. He also happens to be a terrific writer. I notice that he gathered a number of rave reviews to a recent post in which he concluded:
I don’t I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait till the day when it’s rare to see an internal combustion car. At some point, they’ll be anachronistic reminders of a day when people didn’t think twice about spewing poisons into the common airshed. Like smoking in line at the grocery store, you won’t believe people used to do it everywhere.
I responded:
Paul, I agree with the others — you really are one of the great writers on the subject. For what it’s worth, the analogy I use is women wearing mink coats — all the rage in the mid-60s, but completely gone from our culture a few years later, when we all gasped in the collective recognition that it was simply wrong. And this is exactly what I expect will happen with internal combustion engines: they will become regarded as something we used to do – something that no longer has a place in our world.
