My colleague Jon LeSage serves as editor and publisher of Green Auto Market, which tracks the business of green cars, fuels, and technologies. He also serves as Automotive Editor, Green Initiatives at Automotive Digest and writes for Autoblog Green. He …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
Inductive (Wireless/Plugless) Electric Vehicle Charging
Inductive EV charging certainly has its place. Suppose you have a fleet of buses that do nothing but take people from your hotel to the airport and vice versa, with dedicated short-term parking spaces at both ends. Having stationary charging …
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Ford’s EV Messaging Leaves Something To Be Desired
This isn’t an auspicious start to Ford’s campaign to become a leading player in electric transportation. They ask: Who says EVs aren’t fun to drive? Uh, no one? The EV adoption curve may be limited by range anxiety or the …
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Tagged with: electric transportation
Volvo’s First Fully Electric Car
Any automaker that expects to be around in 20 years has an electric vehicle program aggressively underway. Sure, some of these efforts are slow-rolled, as the EV adoption curve hasn’t yet gone into high gear, due largely to issues associated …
Future Phone App Will Help EV Drivers Charge with Wind
Referring to the screen shot here, EV World’s Bill Moore writes: Look what I discovered! The US Wind Turbine Database. It has an API, so I am wondering if I could use Google Flutter to create an App that would …
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Debunking Claims
Some of the claims we come across are immediately discarded because they violate the laws of physics. Others may be theoretically possible but so outrageous that they too must be tossed out the window.
Operational Costs of Electric Vehicles Are Great, But…
My colleague Bill Moore of EV World fame sent this pic and writes: “Used my long-unused KillaWatt meter to measure how much energy it took to top off the Fiat 500e battery after driving 14.3 miles yesterday. Answer: 4.6kWh for …
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EV Road Trip
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly is about as good as it gets in the news radio biz, but she conducted a very weird interview the other day with reporter David Ferris of E&E News, an online news site that covers energy …
This Is What Mass Transit Looks Like
All the innovations in transportation are good, but we still haven’t shattered the basic paradigm of carting around 4000 pounds of steel to get us to work and back. The issue, of course, is profit. Selling steel and oil makes …
Tagged with: mass transit
Regenerative (aka Recuperative) Braking
Senior Energy Analyst Glenn Doty writes on the subject of large electric vehicles: While I was clear in my praise for the electric buses, (large electric trucks represent) the opposite case: One of the avenues of lowest net gain for …
