When I travel, I spend a fair amount of time in rental cars, which provides me with more opportunity to listen to radio programming on our civilization’s challenges and opportunities than I have when I’m home. One of the themes …
Tag: electric transportation
Proponents of Cleantech Have Some Good Ideas — And Some Bad Ones Too
I come across new ideas for renewable energy and alternate fuel vehicles at a rate of perhaps a dozen a week. While (fortunately) there are a few good ones, most of them fail the most basic tests of science and …
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Webinar: Electric Trucks
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGaE_Lb3gtY] My guest here was Dr. Brooks Agnew, CEO of Vision Motors, creator of affordable light-duty battery-electric trucks that will soon be manufactured in the United States and India. As we’ve seen all too frequently over the last few …
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Don’t Predict a Smooth Adoption of … Anything
For those who predict a smooth, predictable adoption of renewable energy, electric transportation, or anything at all, I enter into evidence this graphic showing the importance of social media in our world today. As this is the day of Facebook’s IPO, …
Purveyors of Electric Vehicles Need To Offer a Reasonable Business Proposition
Here’s a press release (dressed as a news article) from Aerovironment, a company with a division that makes electric vehicle chargers. And here’s a line from it that reminds me of the adage: “If the only tool you have is …
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Prospective Electric Vehicle Owners Analyze Break-Even Point on Fuel Costs
Cameron Atwood writes: I recall seeing figures indicating the $45k Volt pays off the difference in savings on gas over electric cost over its ICE (internal combustion engine) brethren in six years. That’s not especially dismal. It depends on how …
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Hoopla Aside, Auto Manufacturers Not Anxious To Roll Out EVs
A quick note from the electric vehicle show in Los Angeles in early May: It’s true that most of the credible car-makers have EV products scheduled for delivery in the not-too-distant future. But they’re obviously hedging their bets, delaying their market entrance …
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Where We’re Going In Clean Energy
Here’s an article that gets to a couple of important points that are illustrative of where we are and where we’re going in clean energy. • Financing solar photovoltaics. There is no doubt that homeowners would be more likely to invest …
Clean Car Calculator
Here’s a “clean car calculator” in which users can plug in certain values and receive an instant assessment of the eco-impact of their vehicle. I’ll point out (before skeptics like reader Glenn Doty have the chance) that the methodology is …
What’s the Plan For Phasing Out Fossil Fuels? Which Do You Want To Hear First? The Good News or the Bad News?
Germany has installed enough photovoltaics that, at this point, coal-fired power plants are beginning to become unprofitable. This is driven by a combination of factors, e.g., that coal isn’t asked to provide power at the peak of the day, when …
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