Here’s an article suggesting that electric transportation saves lives insofar as its environmental benefits reduce global warming, and heat causes more deaths each year. Sadly, this is an oversimplification. As long as coal is our lowest-cost base-load energy source, EVs …
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Kenny Hearn from South Africa writes: Highly underdeveloped countries have all the making to move directly to renewables. Mozambique has a massive hydroelectric plant already, Namibia has massive potential for solar thermal to power surrounding countries and the list goes …
Bringing Electrification Based on Renewable Energy To the Developing World Read More »
What was I thinking not buying stock in Tesla when the company turned profitable? I was telling my daughter earlier this morning that missing this opportunity made me feel like a world-class chump. What to make of this whole phenomenon? …
Tesla’s Meteoric Rise in the Electric Vehicle Space Read More »
Question: How many electric vehicles (passenger cars only) are predicted to be sold globally in 2017? Answer: Can be found at http://2greenenergy.com/cool-guess-answers/8732 . Relevance: The United States is by far the world’s largest consumer of crude oil, accounting for more …
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Longtime 2GreenEnergy supporter and EV enthusiast Fritz Maffry just sent me this piece on BMW’s entrance into the electric vehicle space — a process that has been slow and measured, but perhaps, in the end, one that will prove to …
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As suggested in this article comparing the total cost of ownership of a Nissan LEAF and a Nissan Juke, electric vehicle owners save a considerable amount over the life of their cars, due primarily to the significant savings in fuel …
Here’s a terrific video promoting a fun little three-wheeler that looks extremely well-conceived in every way – except the drive train. You’re going to ask your customers to put gasoline – deathfuel — into that cute, futuristic little thing? Sure, it gets …
Elio Motors Has An Appeal, But It Runs on WHAT?? Read More »
Alysha Webb knows a great deal about the electric vehicle market and the role that China plays in it. I’ve met her at numerous auto shows, and I look forward to reading her always-informative blog posts. But her current piece …
Frequent commenter from the U.K. Gary Tulie writes on my piece this morning concerning creating biofuels from sugar beets: … the efficiency of photosynthesis to energy stored in biomass is at the very best in the 3 to 5% range – and …
Sometimes we hear calls for presidential mandates or other forms of governmental intervention from the least likely sources. For example, I would have bet that General Motors Chairman and CEO Daniel Akerson would have thought the private sector and the …
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