A few weeks ago, I was one of a lucky few to be invited to Seattle, the home of electrical distributor North Coast Electric Company, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Energy Transfer Merchant (“ETM,” a play on “ATM”), a …
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As my client John Collings and I contemplate the future of his business, EV Profiler, and the way we need to present it to the market, we turn our attention to the basic message: removing the concept of range anxiety …
I have a very brilliant friend, Dr. Boris Monahov, who lives in Bulgaria and does a great deal of advanced battery research all around the world. I met him at the Energy Storage show a month or so back, and …
One of the lessons we learn as we go through life is how much tougher things actually are than they initially appear. I was a reasonably athletic person as a young man, and I thought surfing might come easy. Wrong. …
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Q1ZxQw-AQ&w=500&h=405]I was pleased to have EMCycle CEO Michael Scholey on the 2GreenEnergy Report recently discussing electric bicycles with me. I believe that he’ll have considerable success with his own unique product in this exciting market space, and I thought he …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44EaTcV_-4o] Here’s an interview with Steve Hellman, president of Eos Energy Storage, in which Steve claims that zinc-air batteries can finally provide a low-cost answer for utilities and electric vehicle manufacturers. But is it true? We’ve certainly seen stories …
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I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Pesin of the local power utility up here in Northwestern Washington State: Seattle City Light, at the launch of my client EV4’s new product, the “Energy Transfer Merchant.” I thought this conversation was …
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Here’s another note on the value of electric vehicles vs. internal combustion engines. I’m intrigued with the points that Glenn Doty has raised regarding the spurious logic that the DoE and others have used in their “well to wheels” comparisons. …
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dx2YbkUcEk&w=420&h=345] Here, I present a summary of a business plan that would implement a terrific design concept in electric bicycles. I met these folks when I was moderating a panel discussion at the Alt Car Expo in 2009, and …
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrq938qFp7w&w=420&h=345] I’m not an auto manufacturing guy, but I’m closely connected with some of the top people in this field. They’ve come together with a business plan that, when implemented, will build high-quality but inexpensive light-duty electric pick-up trucks. …
