Category: Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

My colleague Jon LeSage serves as Editor and Publisher of Green Auto Market, which tracks the business of green cars, fuels, and technologies.  As shown in the bar chart below, pure diesel buses now account for less than half of …

Worlds’ Buses Moving Away from Fossil Petroleum Read More »

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Here’s a fabulous article that nails the seven most important reasons that the adoption curve of electric vehicles has been so unexciting. A point I found interesting is “lack of clear superiority” (in terms of performance). 

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Obviously, we shouldn’t expect what’s pictured here to be the norm, if for no other reason than even fast charging takes longer that anyone would want to stand around in what used to be a gas station.  Yet at the …

Oil Industry Death Spiral Read More »

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When I first became interested in electric transportation in 2008, the Aptera was already on the scene, and, as I recall, hunting around for potential investors.

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From this article: The oil industry, a staunch opponent of electric vehicles (EVs), received an early Christmas present from the White House as President Trump reportedly intervened to quash an EV tax credit expansion from inclusion in a government spending package.

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My friend Paul Scott has been active in the environmental movement and the push for electric transportation since long before he co-founded Plug-In America with Chelsea Sexton in 2005.  Accompanying his video here, he writes: Wanted to share a sliver …

Celebrating Nature’s Beauty with Plug-In America Co-founder Paul Scott Read More »

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Yes, 2019 brought us great sadness in terms of environmental and humanitarian disasters, but it also packed a huge passel of joy for our Christmas stockings. In particular, the electric transportation space continued its expansion with the introduction of a …

Long-Range Electric Vehicles Multiplying Like Rabbits Read More »

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Question:  Part of what makes Tesla so successful is their vast network of super-charging stations.  What record did they just break in terms of numbers?  (Hint: It’s a multiple of 5,000.) Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: …

Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Energy–Tesla Motors Read More »

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Large marine vessels powered by bunker diesel have horrendous environmental footprints. That’s why it’s such excellent news that government-owned Washington State Ferries, the second-largest ferry system in the world, is switching from diesel to batteries amid a growing trend toward …

World’s Second-largest Ferry System Switching from Diesel to Batteries, Charged Largely with Hydro Read More »

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From Green Car Reports: Fisker’s new mainstream Ocean SUV may still be more than a year away, by optimistic time frames, but the company’s marketing machine has been hard at work.

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