A reader sent me this pic and notes: Welp, time for my regularly scheduled bi-monthly “am I gonna make it to the gas station” panic. My advice: Find out how large your gas tank is and how many gallons of …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
How Apartment-Dwellers Can Charge Their EVs
Here’s a company looking for investors. And who wouldn’t jump at a chance? They claim to have solved a very real problem, i.e., how to enable EV owners who live in apartments to charge their cars. They write: Power Hero …
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Is This a Solution to EV Charging? It’s Impossible to Know.
Right this minute, you’re reading the words of someone who has reviewed a couple of thousand cleantech business plans, and over the last 14 years in this endeavor, who’s developed a few guiding principles to simplify matters. One is that …
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One of the Founders of the EV Has Passed
In 2009 I interviewed one of the early developers of electric transportation, Wayne Goldman, whose daughter just called me to tell me of his passing. He will be missed. Above is a link to our initial conversation.
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Solar-Powered Car
When a friend sent me a link to his concept for a solar-powered car, I thought immediately of all the ideas I’ve come across that are built on the misunderstanding that electric motors with horsepower ratings that enable open-road driving …
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Should You Invest in a New Internal Combustion Engine?
Re: the ad here, I wrote, “We need a new internal combustion engine like we need faster biplanes. What type of moron buys into this?” Reader Andrew Dean replies: “Literally everyone smart enough to know that electric cars are NOT …
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The Future of Transportation
Here’s another entrant into the low-speed EV market, called the Microlino. Looks sharp, but one wonders: what’s the market demand for this style of transportation? I remember with great fondness the years between 2005 and perhaps 2015 when start-ups all …
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Could This Be the Future of Transportation?
As you watch this video on a new design for the future of transportation, ask yourself if this is something that could conceivably meet the needs of our descendants. I can’t tell you what the future looks like, but I’m …
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Microlino – Tiny EV
Not sure where you’re going to sell this. Can’t go on freeways. Driver’s cramped and terrified.
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Why Is Toyota Floundering in Electric Transportation?
Here’s a fabulous article, in which senior transportation analyst Paul Gipe speculates as to what is going so incredibly wrong inside Toyota. I’ve often wondered about many of the points Gipe brings up here. A decade ago, I theorized that …
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