Fresh back from my 36-hour pilgrimage to Manhattan, I have to admit the jolt to the system that a trip like that represents for a 54-year-old guy like me. As a younger man, I did the over-scheduled travel scene for …
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Electric Vehicles and Opportunity Charging
Tina Juarez writes: I get the impression that folks don’t really understand the cost of electricity to charge an EV… When the local Costco decided after years of letting my charge my EV while shopping that I was stealing too …
Market Research and Demand for EVs
Gating Factor in EV Migration: Technological or Cultural?
I notice that there appears to be pretty solid consensus among readers (at least among those who leave comments) that the real problem in EV migration is more cultural than it is technological. As an example, Mike writes: Resistance to …
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Brass Tack #1 and EV Adoption – Response from a Friend
Readers may be interested in the comments of my friend and client Serafino Carri, posted earlier. Sonny, as he is popularly known, being the good guy he is, wrote me a private email with his response, cautious about offending me …
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2GreenEnergy – Fulfilling its Promise to Investors and Entrepreneurs
I’m flying to New York City tomorrow to meet with a new associate – a friend of a friend – who will be helping 2GreenEnergy fulfill its promise to investors and entrepreneurs. He runs a small but effective investment banking …
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DoE Backs Hydrokinetics
I’m always glad when readers write in to alert me to news items in renewables that I may have overlooked. Scott Ledgerwood writes: Craig — enjoyed your hydrokinetics write-up. In case you missed this, see DOE notice on upcoming projects …
Renewable Energy Versus Energy Efficiency
At the risk of stating the obvious, the subject of renewable energy is so much sexier than energy efficiency. I’m always amazed at all the interest on CFL bulbs, energy-efficient appliances – even hybrid electric vehicles. Every joule of energy …
More on the Auto Industry from Wayne Goldman
Here’s an additional conversation with Wayne Goldman that I thought readers would find interesting. I happened to have rented an Audi A4 diesel when I was in Spain a couple of weeks ago that got well over 50 MPG. I …
Wayne Goldman, Electric Car Pioneer
I just had the pleasure of speaking with one of the early developers of electric vehicles, Wayne Goldman. Though I don’t agree with a lot of what he said about the EV industry, I publish it here out of sheer …
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