What Does the Future Look Like for Electric Vehicles? Renewable Energy?

Over a cold beverage during the holidays, my brother Geoff (terrific person) came to ask me about my level of satisfaction with what I’m doing here at 2GreenEnergy. “It’s a mixed bag,” I told him, candidly. “It’s a combination of experiences that, depending on which day you ask me, could be:

• Deeply rewarding, as we’ve helped move countless cleantech deals forward – in fact, many more than I’m directly aware of,

• Fantastically frustrating, in that this project – and the adoption of cleantech generally — is moving far more slowly than I possibly could have imagined given the urgency, or 

• Incredibly mysterious. What’s going to happen? Will this movement be successful in time to avert the clear disaster that, in its absence, awaits life on Earth?  

In the course of a sub-conversation on the electric vehicle adoption curve, I told Geoff, “On a good day, the process of replacing what has just recently crossed over one billion cars and trucks on the world’s roads will scan a couple of decades. And this doesn’t appear to be a particularly good day. At age 56, it seems unlikely that I’ll be on this planet long enough to see the complete resolution.  The truth is, I really don’t know. ”

“It must be bittersweet,” he responded, “thinking that you might miss part of the show.”

“Yep, but I plan to be observing the show from a rocking chair, with my I-Pad 46 – or some computer implanted in my brain — fully tuned in. I don’t plan to miss a beat.” Nothing wrong with a healthy dose of optimism for the holidays.