I’m always interested in articles that speculate on the “electric vehicle adoption curve,” i.e., the pace at which EVs will be integrated into our transportation mix. Here’s a piece by Steven Cohen, Executive Director, Columbia University’s Earth Institute, that concludes …
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Island Green, Bringing Electric Transportation to Bermuda
I spent most of the day with a couple of my partners from our recently minted Bermuda corporation “Island Green.” This is a start-up dedicated to bringing electric transportation to the tony island nation — then to the Caribbean and …
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Conservatives Bash Electric Vehicles — But What’s the Agenda?
When I come across an article like this one from EVWorld’s Bill Moore: “Electric Cars and ‘Can’t Do Spirit’ of American Conservatives” I like to draw readers’ attention to it, and normally attempt to add some value in the form …
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“Telematics” Offers Electric Vehicle Drivers Wonderful Benefits
In April’s 2GreenEnergy webinar on electric transportation, I presented a short section on telematics, and all the wonderful benefits that accrue once the car is connected to the cloud: real-time traffic, green routing, intelligent billing, etc. In this video, a …
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Can Someone Explain Toyota’s Lethargy in the Electric Vehicle Space?
I often wonder what caused Toyota to invest $50 million in Tesla. Obviously they deemed it important in expediting their introduction of electric vehicles. But doesn’t a company the size of Toyota have a considerable gaggle of engineers who know …
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Article Suggests Coda Among Leaders in Electric Vehicles
I’m one of these people who’s always interested in product placement – you know, that Coors Light that the handsome and likeable guy in the movie you’re watching just happens to be sipping, or the United Airlines jumbo jet that …
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Car-sharing and Electric Vehicles
I want to call readers’ attention to the whole car-sharing phenomenon – particularly as it applies to the deployment of electric vehicles, and this excellent article that tackles some of the issues. There is no doubt that car-sharing in dense …
EV Consultants Speak on the Ford Focus Electric and the Nissan LEAF
I thought readers may be interested in the response I got from two dedicated EV buffs (both partners of mine at EVWorld Associates – see bios here) when I asked them why they favored the electric version of the Ford …
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It’s May, and We’re Arranging Marriages in the Electric Vehicle Industry
Over a period of almost 30 years, I ran the delivery organization of the marketing consultancy I co-founded, Mueller/Shields. I found this terrifically rewarding in a number of ways – one of which was knowing that I was at least …
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Electric Vehicle Predictions for 2020, 2050
EV buff Dick Schoen argues: “EVs, the 110 models coming into the US from forty or so manufacturers worldwide, cannot successfully commercialize without free public solar charging.” I reply: Dick: Thanks for writing. I have a great deal of respect …
