Thought you’d enjoy this. There is a sad truth behind the joke, however. Some folks think the world is so fixated on preserving the environment that large numbers of people are willing to punish themselves by driving small, cramped and dangerous …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
An Update on Vehicle-to-Grid
What’s happening in “vehicle-to-grid” (V2G), the concept of using an intelligent, bidirectional flow of electrons between electric vehicles and the power grid? Well, at a macro level, the honest answer is: not much. Pretty much everyone would like to live …
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Our Burgeoning Interest in Flying Cars
When I read my colleague Jon LeSage’s piece on the development of flying cars in his Green Auto Digest this morning, I had the same reaction that anybody would: How feasible is this? How far in the future does this …
Exploring the Future of Mobility
My colleague Jon LeSage of “Green Auto Digest” fame has written a book about his own experience with the future of urban mobilit y, Tales of UberMan: An auto journalist shares his Prius with savvy riders, published as a Kindle e-book. …
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Trends in the Auto Industry: Will Car Ownership Soon Be Regarded as a Disease?
My colleague Jon LeSage has just published another edition of his Green Auto Digest, this one attempting to answer an important question: Why is Apple investing $1B in Chinese ridesharing giant Didi? Jon provides several good answers, some rather blatant, …
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Colorado Approves Substantial Tax Credit for Electric Vehicles
Colorado just became the state with the best incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles ($7,500 from the federal government plus $5,000 from the state = $12,500). Looks like Coloradans can legally get high and purchase EVs at a bargain …
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Netherlands: No New Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle Sales After 2025!
2GreenEnergy mega-supporter Gary Tulie writes: Hi Craig, The lower house of the Dutch parliament recently voted to end the sale of fossil fuel vehicles from 2025! How much longer before the rest of the EU follows?
Alberta Tar Sands and Lithium Ion Batteries: A Case Study in Deception
Here’s an excellent example of the incredible distortion of facts that is so common to our political and economic discussions today. I hope you’ll check out this fascinating article. So many people are being led around by the nose with …
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The Viability of Electric Transportation
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty and I have ongoing discussions about the legitimacy of electric transportation. I wrote recently about the coming hockey-stick growth curve that I expect to see in this space, to which Glenn replies:
What’s Up with the Electric Vehicle Adoption Curve?
Here, my colleague Jon Lesage presents another installment of his Green Auto Digest, this one centered around the ACT Expo (Advanced Clean Transportation), held in Long Beach, CA last week. It was wonderful to see Jon again; it’s good that …
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