Here’s a motor of the BMW’s 10-cylinder M5; compare to photo of Tesla’s below. When EVs first came on the scene, many people believed that the sheer simplicity of the concept, and the extremely high efficiency that it gave birth …
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Global Cleantech Venture Investment Dips 33% to $6.45 Billion
Yesterday I spent an hour taking in a terrific webinar from the Cleantech Group, conducted by what I’m sure must have been one of its most senior consultants, Sheeraz Haji, who ably walked us through some of the 2012 numbers …
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Carnegie Mellon University Studies Electric Transportation
Glenn Doty points out a flaw in my recent piece about electric transportation. He writes: (The Carnegie Mellon University study) assumes a life-cycle grid emissions profile of 615 g-CO2E/kWh. That is blatant BS. The impact of new marginal electricity demand …
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Oil Carries a Few Externalities, Like Death and Dismemberment
I received the normal pushback on my recent piece praising electric transportation. In response, I make two broad points: 1) We are most definitely headed in the direction of clean energy, electric transportation (including small, urban commuter vehicles, e-bikes, mass …
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