A reader comments: I have been chasing down the origin of a news story presently making the rounds. While I am not fond of hydrogen vehicles it is reasonable to keep an eye on the developments. The articles seem to …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
Presentation of CleanTech–Electric Transportation in Particular
A few readers have commented that my colleague Fritz Maffry has some excellent insights into the future of technology, including, of course, cleantech. Here’s his latest installment that includes a solid discussion of the electric vehicle curve: We have …
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Trends in Electric Vehicles: Nothing Radical
When it finally became obvious about ten years ago that electric transportation was becoming a real “thing,” one that would ultimately dominate and then replace the internal combustion engine, most of us believed that the form factor of these vehicles …
The Migration To Renewables Is Happening in Stages
As my colleague Jon LeSage points out in his Green Auto Digest, stricter emissions standards and falling battery prices have conspired to transform the automobile industry’s signature event, the Paris Auto Show, into a display case for electric vehicles. The …
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Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal Has Silver Lining
As reported by my colleague Jon LeSage in his terrific publication Green Auto Digest, the most influential car show in the world, The Paris Auto Show, is featuring an enormous range of electric vehicles, spurred on at least in some …
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Check Out What Singapore’s Doing in Autonomous Vehicles
My first reaction to the concept of autonomous cars was not a good one. You want to replace the driver? We like driving. How about replacing some of the things that we don’t like, e.g., the fuel that’s ruining …
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A Contributed Post: Volvo Making Good on Their Electrification Strategy
Volvo is now jumping into the electric car market. The automaker recently unveiled two concept vehicles that were designed and built to ultimately support the company’s first all-electric vehicles to go into production. Both of vehicles will utilize Compact Modular …
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Cool Concept in Personal Transportation
If you believe that personal urban transportation has an important future (which I do), here’s a really clever design that looks safe, fun, attractive—and potentially cost-effective. Readers will note that I support a similar design (on the 2GreenEnergy “clean energy …
Under What Circumstances Are Environmentalists Hypocritical?
In response to my piece on the Environmental Impact of Electric Transportation, frequent commenter MarcoPolo wonders, mockingly, how it’s possible that many EV advocates don’t own EVs. I suppose that, by extension, he’s implying that any environmentalists who doesn’t adopt …
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The Environmental Impact of Electric Transportation
Frequent commenter “Breath on the Wind” provides some very interesting and important math in response to my recent post about charging electric vehicles. His central point is that the incremental amount of load on the grid associated with converting all …
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