What has three wheels, one seat, runs on electricity, and costs $18,500? A “Solo” (shown here). How well will this do in the market? It depends on people’s appetite for owning more than one car, with the commensurate costs of …
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A World Without Big Oil
The graphic below explains a lot about our world, and the brutal Saudi empire in particular. It gives one a sense for what the geopolitical globe will look like once we have removed oil as our source of energy in …
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Hydrogen Supercar
Want a futuristic car that gets unlimited amounts of attention? Well, if this hydrogen-powered wow-machine is ever actually built, it will most certainly be for you. There is a reason, however, that this prototype will never be brought into production, …
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Cutting Back on Vehicle Miles Traveled
The push to reduce VMT (vehicle miles traveled) has been quite successful in many regions of Europe, where there is a confluence of great public transportation, infrastructure that supports bicycling, and an honest interest in environmental responsibility. In the United …
Technology Is Changing Fast
The meme here made me smile, and provided a heartening reminder that fossil fuels really are on their last legs.
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Wishing Fisker Good Luck with Its New Battery EV, But ….
My only reaction to the new EV offering from Fisker, the “Ocean,” is closer to PTSD than anything else. About 10 years ago, venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins backed the luxury plug-in hybrid “Karma” to a disastrous end. I happened …
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The Purpose of Electric Transportation
This is intriguing. Some things to consider: There is no doubt that the environmental footprint associated with electric transportation represents a huge improvement over the combustion of fossil fuels, and that delta is widening steadily as zero-carbon sources of energy …
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Absurd Conversation on Electric Vehicles
Buttigieg is correct here, of course. But keep in mind that Greene’s audience isn’t intellectuals; it’s voters in one of the most undereducated parts of rural Georgia who find her ‘reasoning’ quite compelling.
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Bloomberg Quotes Guggenheim Securities: “Solar Is Now 33% Cheaper Than Gas Power in US”
For Bloomberg, Angel Adegbesan writes: Natural gas’s dominance as power-plant fuel in the US is fading fast as the cost of electricity generated by wind farms and solar projects tumbles, according to Guggenheim Securities. Utility-scale solar is now about a …
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Environmentalists Who Use Gasoline Are Not Hypocrites
Glad to see this. Commonly, we see EV drivers mocked for filling up tanks of gasoline for their emergency generators in preparation for hurricanes. How asinine.
