Below is a cool thing I got from a friend. Note the remarks on electric transportation, renewable energy, and the desalination of water. The basic thrust of all this is exactly what we’ve been saying at 2GE since its inception:
Tag: electric transportation
How Important is “Vehicle-to-Grid” in the EV Adoption Curve?
There is no doubt that electric transportation will make terrific headway over the coming couple of decades. Here, Forbes suggests that one-quarter of the cars on the road in 2040 will be EVs. Fair enough. But the author goes on …
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Tagged with: affordable batteries at utility-scale, demand response, electric transportation, enabling the grid to absorb peak power from idle EVs, ensemble of renewable energy coming on line, high voltage transmission, integration of different types of renewables with different availability profiles, one-quarter of the cars on the road in 2040 will be EVs, storage associated with EVs, tipping point for renewable energy, V2G, vehicle-to-grid
Hydrogen-based Transportation
The video linked here is a promotion for the hydrogen-based Toyota Miria. Here are a few comments on its claims: It’s for the philosopher; it’s an ode to living.
Rule of Thumb for 2017: If You and I Care About It, It’s a Political Non-Starter
Since its inception coming up on eight years ago, 2GreenEnergy has attempted to sort out the issues that affect our civilization’s replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, and this, as we made clear at the start, encompasses the interactivity between …
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Vehicle to Grid Technology Is Happening in the Netherlands
Gary Tulie, long-time colleague extraordinaire, writes: Craig, here is one of the things I predicted when helping with Bullish on Renewable Energy. In the Netherlands, 6000 Tesla electric vehicles are beginning to show the potential of controllable charging to help …
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Battery Prices Going the Same Way as All Other Aspects of Clean Energy: DOWN.
Here’s a graph for those who said that battery prices could never fall far enough to make electric transportation effective.
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What’s Driving the Move To CleanTech?
Here’s the first edition of Green Auto Digest for the New Year, from my colleague Jon LeSage. The take-away is that the two most important trends in transportation, i.e., autonomous vehicles and alt-fuel, are both moving forward at an impressive …
Tagged with: alt-fuel vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, energy storage, environmental regulation, environmental stewardship, EPA, Green Auto Digest, rapid migration towards clean energy, Secretary of Energy, smart grid, staggering amounts of money in solar and wind
(Mixed) Message of Hope for the Holiday Season
Every Christmas since we opened in 2009, I’ve written a hopeful little holiday message in the spirit of the season and the expectation of a bright New Year. At this point, however, I have to question the sanity, or at …
Tagged with: climate change is the most important challenge facing humankind, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, energy storage, environment justice and world peace, falling prices of renewables, kibosh of oil/gas exploration in the Arctic and the Northern Atlantic Oceans, smart grid, upsurge in distributed solar in the developing world
Electric Transportation: Lots of Movement In the Right Direction
My colleague Jon LeSage writes in this Green Auto Digest: Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to promote China-based BYD’s electric vehicles and zero emissions campaign.
The Cost-Effectiveness of Clean Energy Is Constantly Improving: And That’s Important News in Today’s Horrific Political Climate
Here’s more evidence of an extremely important phenomenon on the world energy stage: the continued fall in the cost of solar electricity. Environmentalists continue to wring their hands as people like Rex Tillerson, Scott Pruitt, and Rick Perry are nominated …
