The Validity of Electric Transportation
I’d like to call readers’ attention to this discussion of the validity of electric transportation. In fact, the discussion began earlier in this piece on bashing electric vehicles. There are a lot of interesting ideas here that challenge the way the EV community generally sees the issue.
I would like to add one more variable into the equation: distributed generation. I bring this up partially because I know people who spec’d the solar arrays they put on their roofs specifically to charge their EVs, and partially because distributed solar (not to mention distributed wind/geo/hydro), has a real shot to change the energy paradigm in the not-too-distant future. (more…)