Category: Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

As anyone could have foreseen, the State of California’s ban on sales of new gas- and diesel-powered cars starting in 2035 has revved up the Big Oil machine that manufactures and disseminates malicious lies on electric transportation. The truth, which …

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A reader sent me this, noting: Hey let me get off next exit, & charge my batteries for 4 hours, by then we will have another 6 inches of snow. Indeed, it would be a very poor decision to push …

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From reader Mark White: You have probably seen this. California is set to make history by banning sales of gas-powered cars. Can it deliver?   Yes, I wrote a piece on this the other day, in my post called California: No …

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A reader notes: Finally ending the insanity of 20th Century petrochemical industries, fully 35 years into our 21st. This is good news, to be sure, but don’t think for a moment that the battle is over.  Big Oil has been …

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I suppose that a case could be made that Dodge is an auto brand specially targeted at morons.  Think Budweiser, Trump. But most people don’t like to look stupid.  Speaking strictly for myself, I would feel like an absolute idiot …

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When it comes to the transmissions in their cars, almost all Americans prefer automatics, and increasingly few of our millennials even know how to drive standard (manual) transmissions.

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Here’s an article on EVs that explores the topic in the title above.  The fellow admits that he’s not an engineer or a physicist but observes, correctly, that attaching a wind turbine to the top of an EV and using …

Wind Turbines on EVs and Why That’s a Bad Idea Read More »

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That’s quite a fleet of high-speed, all-electric trains you folks have there.  Congratulations! Not unlike the rest of Asia, Japan, and most of Western/Central Europe. Pity you will not find anything remotely resembling this in the United States.

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An old friend asked for my response to three (multi-pronged) questions on renewable energy and electric transportation.  Here are my responses:   Question #1:  How long do you believe it will take until the RE technologies will be able to …

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A reader asked for my feedback on this concept in CO2 capture. I really don’t have the background to evaluate this, but I can say that the capturing of CO2 at point sources, e.g., coal plants and concrete manufacturing, is …

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