My colleague Jon LeSage writes in his Green Auto Digest on the future of shared mobility services and carsharing services that will be offered by automakers and car rental companies: Carsharing services are presenting a business model for automakers to …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
From Guest Blogger Eileen O’Shanassy: Are Electric Cars Safe? How Features are Changing
Overall, electric cars are a green and very safe option for modern drivers. They are even getting safer as more models arrive. Most bring a number of extra benefits to the table and most people who choose to drive electric …
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The Oil Companies Aren’t Going Down Easily, But….
A reader notes on a recent post about electric transportation: We can think all day, as long as we keep in mind that Oil cartels are not quite ready to surrender a $multi-trillion industry.
How Important is “Vehicle-to-Grid” in the EV Adoption Curve?
There is no doubt that electric transportation will make terrific headway over the coming couple of decades. Here, Forbes suggests that one-quarter of the cars on the road in 2040 will be EVs. Fair enough. But the author goes on …
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Hydrogen-based Transportation
The video linked here is a promotion for the hydrogen-based Toyota Miria. Here are a few comments on its claims: It’s for the philosopher; it’s an ode to living.
Electric Cars Go “Exponential”
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie of idyllic Buckinghamshire England (see pic if you doubt my claim) sent me this thoughtful piece on the EV adoption curve. I responded: I agree with the basic concept, i.e., that a slight drop in the …
Vehicle to Grid Technology Is Happening in the Netherlands
Gary Tulie, long-time colleague extraordinaire, writes: Craig, here is one of the things I predicted when helping with Bullish on Renewable Energy. In the Netherlands, 6000 Tesla electric vehicles are beginning to show the potential of controllable charging to help …
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2GreenEnergy at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo
I’m down at the ACT Expo in Long Beach today, duly impressed, as always, with the progress that the world is making in the direction of sustainable transportation. Of course, most of what we see here are vehicles that are …
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Tesla’s Strategic Direction
My colleague Jon LeSage writes in his GreenAutoDigest: TESLA SEEKING JOINT VENTURE PARTNER AND OTHER INTERESTING NEWS FROM CHINA If you take a look at which global automakers have joint ventures with government-backed Chinese companies, you’ll notice only one missing: …
Electric Vehicles and the Coming Disruption in the Oil Market–More Discussion
There has been some interesting discussion on my recent post: Electric Vehicles and the Coming Disruption in the Oil Market, including some back-and-forth about the unhappy fate of General Motors’ concept electric vehicle “EV-1,” and the allegation that GM sabotaged …
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