A reader points out: French automaker Peugeot Citroen has invented a brand new air-powered hybrid. The ‘Hybrid Air’ system uses compressed air to move the car’s wheels when driving under 43 mph. Peugeot says the new hybrid system should get …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
The Adoption Curve for Electric Vehicles
Here’s an article that presents some specious logic associated with electric vehicle adoption. In particular, the greening of conventional vehicles militates away from, not towards, the adoption of EVs; the payback in fuel consumption for an EV is far more …
Tagged with: adoption of EVs, coal plants retired, coal-fired power plants, distributed generation, electric vehicle adoption, EV range, fossil fuel consumption, fossil fuels, greening of conventional vehicles, internalizing the externalities of gasoline, mid-sized wind, nuclear power plants, off-peak power, opportunity charging locations, smart grid, Tesla’s fast-charging locations, V2G, vehicle-to-grid, wind energy curtailed, wind energy negative prices
Carrots and Sticks: Rethinking Mobility
It’s always interesting to see what people are doing around the world with respect to pushing the paradigm shift in transportation. The concept of individual ownership of a 4000-pound car that is parked 23 hours a day, and has one …
From Guest Blogger R. Hoyal: Should Corporate Company Cars Be Electric?
Congratulations. You have finally made it from the mailroom, to that position at the top of the business tree. If you want to spend your hard-earned wages on a brand new car then feel free. Sites such as Carsales always …
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Tagged with: BIK, business, businesses, Carbon Footprint, cars, CO2, company car, Corporate, Corporations, eco, electric, emissions, environmental, environmentally-friendly, green, hybrid, Plug-in Car Grant, profit, vehicle, vehicles
Paradigm Shift in Personal Mobility
At yesterday’s conference at UCLA — The Financial Implications of Going Green — I happened to sit in front of a graduate student in corporate sustainability – I forget the exact name of her program. When I asked what she was learning, she told …
From Guest Blogger Hank Young: Why Go Hybrid In 2013?
2013 is looking to be a promising year for auto companies after the industry helped propel the economy through 2012 with a monumental comeback and record sales since the beginning of the recession in 2008. According to The Polk research …
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Environmentally Friendly Cars
The other day I asked my friend Paul Scott, who co-founded the EV advocacy group Plug-In America and currently sells the Leaf at the Nissan dealership in downtown Los Angeles, about environmentally friendly cars, specifically about the real environmental benefits …
Examining the Consumer Value Proposition for Electric Vehicles
Here’s a piece of idiotic reporting on electric vehicles that I thought I’d share. Apparently, a survey shows that current EV customers are quite happy with their purchase, but a large number of non-EV drivers (the report doesn’t quantify this) don’t like …
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What Does Avis’ Purchase of Zipcar Mean for the Car-Sharing Industry?
I’d like to think that Avis Rent A Car’s purchase of Zipcar for $500 million is good news for the car-sharing industry and the social phenomenon behind it. There is no question that car sharing is a terrific idea, in …
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Another Benefit of Sustainable Transportation: Less Traffic Congestion
Those of us who live near major cities spend a great deal of time stuck in traffic, when we’re unfortunate enough to be forced to drive at rush-hour, or encounter some special circumstance like an accident. I’m sure many of …
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Tagged with: and commuting, car-sharing, effecting a total paradigm shift for the 21st Century. Obviously the car companies, Future of Transportation, generally, mass transit, network approach to transportation, oil companies, redesigning cities to encourage more walking and bicycling, rethinking of transportation, ride-sharing, small urban commuter vehicles, small urban vehicles for package delivering, sustainable transportation, traffic congestion
