As cars and trucks with internal combustion engines give way to electric transportation, a great deal needs to be celebrated. Certainly the environmental gains are important, but probably no more than ridding ourselves of the horrific geopolitics of oil. And …
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Public and Private Sectors Working Together To Encourage Electric Transportation
Here’s an article that suggests the forces of pure market economics are all that are necessary to replace gas and diesel powered cars and trucks with electric vehicles. Of course, this is the thesis of most of what I’ve written …
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Electric Cars Go “Exponential”
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie of idyllic Buckinghamshire England (see pic if you doubt my claim) sent me this thoughtful piece on the EV adoption curve. I responded: I agree with the basic concept, i.e., that a slight drop in the …
Electric Vehicles and the Coming Disruption in the Oil Market
Below is a cool set of videos suggested by frequent commenter “Breath on the Wind,” describing the coming crash of the world oil market caused by the electrification of transportation. As could be expected, there is not a single mention …
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Sobering Notes on the Transportation Sector
I had lunch today at the annual ACTExpo (alternative fuel vehicles) conference with Steven Johnston, an extremely senior consultant to the transportation industry, based in Michigan. I thought I’d simply list a few of his viewpoints that I found most …
How Big a Deal is the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure?
A reader comments on my post in which I predicted a fairly rapid adoption of EVs and a corresponding diminution of internal combustion engines: such an event requires advances in technology and infrastructure that don’t currently exist. While the author …
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Traffic Congestion Is Unpleasant, But It’s Just One of the Issues Associated with Modern-Day Transportation
Here’s an article that analyzes the traffic in the most congested cities in Europe: what causes it to worsen, and what progressive concepts are being offered to loosen it up. There are no surprises here: you get what you reward. …
