Question: Who first discovered that the flow of electricity induces a current in a nearby circuit? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Bermuda just announced its new fleet of all-electric buses. More specifically:
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
GM Seems Fully On Board with Promoting Their EVs–Better Late than Never
Nice to see that General Motors is coming up with some adorable ads for its all-electric Chevy Bolt. Obviously, the planet would have a better prognosis had they not put a spear through their first EV campaign 26 years ago, …
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The Status of Hydrogen in Our Energy Picture
The video below covers the pros and cons of hydrogen as a carrier of energy in a fair and honest fashion, and that’s not something that can be said about every attempt to address the subject. As a quick reminder: …
Tagged with: batteries are enjoying faster charging times, batteries are getting more energy-dense, batteries for Class 8 trucks, batteries for commercial aircraft, batteries for ocean cargo ships, Blue hydrogen, CO2 that is captured and stored beneath the Earth's surface, electrolysis of water using renewable energy, green hydrogen, high efficiency of charging and discharging batteries, steam reformation of methane
The Future of Transportation
When you ponder the future of transportation, can you imagine most of it taking place above the ground? These folks say that passenger cars will soon be replaced by passenger drones, each flown by someone without so much as a …
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Charging Your EV: Where Does the Energy Comes From?
A reader answers the question above, followed by my comments in italics: This is a function of your utility’s grid mix. There will likely be a lot of gas, possibly some coal, hydro is common, nukes, and of course solar …
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Tagged with: Charging electric vehicles means adding a predictable incremental load onto the grid, grid operators are already integrating as much renewable energy as possible, more energy storage and better transmission, overbuilding a solar array for charging EVs is a great plan, your utility's grid mix
Are EVs Environmentally Viable?
An EV skeptic writes as follows, with my comments in italics: What do they think will happen if they succeed in making the entirety of the US transition to electric cars?
Tagged with: average efficiency of internal combustion engines is ~20%, electrification of everything, environmental damage caused by producing the batteries, extreme weather events have made grid failures more frequent over recent years, proponents of clean energy and transportation are more beholden to moneyed interests than the congresspeople who perpetuate the consumption of fossil fuels, Stakeholders include automakers power utilities world government agencies NGOs and consumer groups, technology economics and politics, transition to electric cars, United States has among the most reliable grids on Earth
Do You Really Want Louder, Slower, and More Expensive Transportation? Hell Yes.
On a discussion of the merits of EVs, Reader A notes: I’ll keep my V8s gas hogs over electric, to which Reader B replies: Have you driven an EV yet? I could never go back to louder, slower, more expensive …
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Why Electric Vehicles?
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 …
Some Conspiracy Theories Require Serious Levels of Stupidity
Look, I love a good QAnon-style conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but even I’m not so sure about this one. The liberal environmentalists convinced Putin to invade Ukraine and manipulated global oil production levels?
Tagged with: liberal environmentalists
QAnon and Electric Vehicles
EV World’s Bill Moore writes, ” It was inevitable, I suppose, but the Q-Anon crowd is now spreading the latest wacko conspiracy that the reason the Biden Administration is pushing for the shift to electric cars is so the government …
