The Future of Transportation

Here’s 2GreenEnergy Associate and transportation visionary Dan Sturges giving a talk on the future of mobility.  He’s most certainly right about a lot of things:

• Our current transportation paradigm (the car) has been with us for over 100 years, and it’s far too wasteful and expensive, both financially and environmentally, for the 21st Century.  The average car has 1.1 occupants, and is in use 3% of the day.  Roughly than 1% of the gasoline our cars consume goes into moving the occupants; 75% is wasted as heat, and 24% is used in moving the car.  

• We take a car that could take us across the country — to go to the gym or the grocery store a mile away.  We worry about recycling our cell phones, but not too much about those 30,000 car parts, whose collective weight may be 5,000 pounds.

• The advent of information and communications technology enables all kinds of things (ride-sharing, car-sharing, e-bike rentals, etc.) that ultimately mean a welcome reduction in car ownership.

Nice going, Dan.