Category: Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

Writing for SustainableBrands.com, Libby MacCarthy begins her article on electric bikes: Government-led initiatives designed to cut carbon emissions and reduce air pollution in cities, though well-intentioned, often come under fire from those who stand the most to gain from them …

Electric Bikes: An Important Tool in Reducing Transportation’s Carbon Footprint Read More »

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In a few weeks, I have an appointment to meet with a representative of VW USA to turn in my car, a Jetta TDI (diesel), one of 11 million vehicles in the emissions scandal, and receive a check for its …

VW’s Plans for the Future Include Electric Vehicles—Whether They Wanted To Go in that Direction Or Not Read More »

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Here’s a graph for those who said that battery prices could never fall far enough to make electric transportation effective.

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2GreenEnergy supporter and clean energy DIYer extraordinaire Brian McGowan sent me this piece on a company that proposes wireless (inductive) charging of electric vehicles as they’re driven across our major roadways. My comments: 

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If recent announcements from Ford are an indication of the direction that the automotive industry is headed, vehicles will soon be smarter and greener than ever before. America’s most iconic pickup truck will become a tech-lover’s hybrid by 2020. According …

From Guest Blogger Devin Morrissey: Ford Prepares for a Greener Future with the New F-150 Read More »

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From the current edition of Green Auto Market, published by my colleague Jon LeSage: Will fuel cell vehicles be able to thrive and surpass plug-in vehicle sales? The question of which clean technology will prevail in the car of the future …

What Exactly Is the Attraction of Fuel Cell-Based Transportation? Read More »

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A few more observations on the exploding advancements of technology in transportation from our colleague Fritz Maffry. – ed This year, the CES (formerly “Consumer Electronics Show”) in Vegas might as well have been called the Electric and Autonomous Vehicle …

Transportation: EVs and Autonomous Leading the Discussions—Insights from 2GreenEnergy Contributor Fritz Maffry Read More »

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Continued thanks to my colleague Fritz Maffry for his regular contributions, including some terrific insights.  Here’s another installment. -ed — Ford is now readying a spend plan of $5 billion for electric vehicle development. That is a great sum, and …

Perspective on the Transportation Industry from 2GreenEnergy Supporter Fritz Maffry Read More »

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I’ve been speaking with my colleague Fritz Maffry in Kansas City a couple of times a month for the last eight years or so, and I’ve come to respect not only his strategies and tactics as a businessman in the …

More Insights from 2GreenEnergy Supporter and Tech Maven Fritz Maffry Read More »

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My colleague Jon LeSage offers this wonderful edition of his Green Auto Digest, summing up the progress that has been made in clean transportation in 2016, and speculating as to what we may expect to see in the coming year. …

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles: Time To Say Goodbye Read More »

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