Here’s a neat announcement by Hyundai on its first electric vehicles — with a commitment to some pretty robust quantities. I rented a Hyundai Elantra when I was back East a few weeks, and was delighted with the quality of …
Hyundai's First Stab at Electric Vehicles Looks Impressive Read More »
I commented last week on the Wall Street Journal’s article on Nissan’s electric vehicle – the Leaf. The author points out that Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has made this commitment “without even knowing if people will buy them.” Every time …
Nissan's Leaf and the Electric Vehicle Adoption Curve Read More »
I just wrote a post on Renewable Energy World in which I suggest that everyone learn about – and weigh in on — the new EPA ratings. When implemented shortly, this will represent the first change from the famous city …
Offer Your Opinion on the New EPA Vehicle Ratings Read More »
One of the keys to successful product launches is finding a niche that’s bound to be successful, and using that success to tell the story to a broader audience. Nowhere is this more important than in the introduction of electric …
Introduction of the Nissan Leaf in Hawaii — Textbook Niche-marketing Read More »
A friend of mine who is trying to raise public or private money for his extremely well-conceived electric vehicle start-up just wrote to me with words that ring true: [We’ll be attending the] upcoming Annual Congressional Business Summit, and this …
Congress: Sincere in Helping Small Clean Tech Businesses? Read More »
When my friend Paul Scott, co-founder of Plug-In America took a trip to Yokohama last June to test drive the Nissan Leaf, I never dreamed it would include a private lunch with CEO, Carlos Ghosn — and ultimately — a …
I try to stay at least partially connected to the mainstream coverage of renewable energy and electric transportation – not so much because I believe there is truth there, but because I need to know what the mainstream consumers believe. …
I spoke with Honda’s Steve Ellis yesterday about the position I took in my book re: hydrogen fuel-cell-based cars. Steve is a vocal proponent for this controversial technology, and his job, I’ve come to learn, involves busily correcting misinformation on …
Sorry to have been absent from the blogosphere for a bit here. Thursday I was standing in a dairy in Northern Virginia surrounded by hundreds of cows — checking out a methane digester, talking about waste-to-energy, and how feed-in tariffs …
2GreenEnergy – Checking Out Sustainability-Related Businesses on the East Coast Read More »
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCgYI5YPjx0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1] For better or worse, I’ve advertised my willingness to review business plans in the renewables and electric transportation space — and to provide a comment without cost or obbligation. This, as you can only imagine, as landed some …
