Maybe there’s a lesson here. People don’t want environmentally friendly solutions that suck. The Smart Car has done terribly in comparison to other high MGP cars, and is going away. It’s priced the same as the Nissan Sentra — a perfectly …
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Caring About the Future of Our Civilization Could Be “a Thing” … and Fairly Soon
In this incredible interview, legendary environmentalist, eternal optimist, and one of my true heroes Paul Hawken points out that a sustainable civilization can come about quite easily, as only a small percentage of any society is required to create an …
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The Validity of Electric Transportation
In response to my recent piece on electric transportation in Seeking Alpha, EV naysayer Glenn Doty writes a response that concludes: “I just don’t get how any environmentalist could support these. If the people who buy solar panels and a …
What’s Wrong Inside Toyota?
I spoke with a couple of the people promoting the 2012 release of the Prius plug-in hybrid yesterday at the 2010 Plug-In show. Gosh, this seems like a strange concept. Its all-electric range? 13 miles. The net effect for the …
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