There are probably enough people poking jabs at the youthful climate activist Greta Thunberg without my jumping on the bandwagon, but this is all in good fun, and it’s far too clever to ignore.
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
How Eco-Friendly Is Electric Transportation?
Here’s a subject we haven’t covered in a while: the net eco-benefit of electric transportation. It seems so straightforward at first glace: add up all the environmental footprint associated with putting an EV on the ground, add in that of …
EV Drawbacks?
Here’s an article presenting some of the drawbacks of electric vehicles. This doesn’t explain too well why Tesla’s market cap is $806 billion. Seriously, some of these were true 10 years ago.
We Can Talk About Hydrogen, But We’ve Been Doing That for a Very Long Time
Please note that this is a conversation we’ve been having more or less continuously for almost 50 years, and the fundamental issues aren’t improving for hydrogen. It’s still inefficient, it still has a very limited delivery infrastructure, and batteries keep …
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Teensy-Weensy Electric Lawn Mowers
Anyone who believes that tiny, robotically driven, electrically powered mowers are the future of lawn care can plunk down $100K and buy a franchise. On the other hand, anyone who, like me, sees this as preposterous, would do well to …
QuantumScape’s Solid State (Lithium Metal) Battery Has Investors, Environmentalists Excited
From the MIT Technology Review: Then earlier this year Jagdeep Singh, the chief executive of QuantumScape, claimed in an interview with The Mobilist that the heavily funded, stealth Silicon Valley company had cracked the key technical challenges. He added that VW …
Assessing the Aptera
An old friend sent me this piece on the Aptera, an EV “new” to the market and powered by the sun, asking for my comments. A couple of things:
Norway’s Autonomous Electric Ferry
From this article: “Passengers on each side of the canal that separates the port and city center can press a button to call the boat to their side. The boat charges while it waits at the dock, fits up to …
EVs and Electricity Prices
Here’s a quick discussion between life-long environmentalist Paul Scott and me, regarding the question posed at the left. Paul: Short answer is no. You’ll probably be paying even less if you switch to solar or wind energy.
Tagged with: cost of electricity generated by solar and wind is very low, electric vehicles can be charged with off-peak energy that has very little value, EVs and Electricity Prices, extremely low efficiency of internal combustion engines (~20%) and the relative high efficiency of charging and discharging batteries (80+%), increased load associated with electrifying every car and truck on Earth is about 14%, price on carbon
Fiat 500E – Cool EV, and New To Most of the World
We Californians are familiar with the Fiat 500E, because it’s available here, and, get this, we’re the only place on Earth they’re sold–a decision that was obviously driven by California’s CAFE standard mandate. They’re not even on the market in …
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