I was just about to write a post to express my revulsion with Toyota for two things: a) its support of the “Sedition Caucus,” the members of the House of Representatives who, after the January 6th riots were brought to …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
Where Did All the EVs Go?
How did we lose EV technology? It depends on what you believe. The common answer is that the electric starter, developed in the early 1920s to replace the hand crank, made internal combustion engines easy to start for women and …
Electric Transportation Confers Environmental Benefits, But It’s a Tricky Subject
A friend sent me this piece from the Wall Street Journal on the environmental benefits of electric transportation, called Are Electric Cars Really Better for the Environment? While it’s very good, the situation is actually a bit more complicated than …
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The EV Adoption Curve
Here’s a recent edition of the PBS News Hour, covering the part of U.S. President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan that promotes electric transportation. According to the piece, the path to getting the replacement of internal combustion engines is not …
Tagged with: better EV batteries, consumer demand for EVs, conversation of the federal government's fleet to EVs, factors that limit EV adoption EV charging points, indifference to environmental issues, infrastructure plan that promotes electric transportation, PBS News Hour, replacement of internal combustion engines, significant consumer rebates for EVs
Investing in EV Batteries
Further discussion on this ridiculous call for investment into EV batteries: (Sarcastic) Reader A: I am sure all of the used up batteries will provide an awesome effect on our environment after they are discarded. Me: You may not be …
Tagged with: batteries effect on our environment, car batteries are by far the most recycled item in our civilization (97%), extremely high efficiency of charging and discharging batteries (over 80%), horrible low efficiency of internal combustions engines (under 25%), investment into EV batteries, we could electrify every vehicle on Earth and only increase the total electrical load by 14%
Investors: Cash in on This Little-Known Fact–EVs Run on Batteries
Here’s a question: How many people with money to invest in electric transportation don’t know that EVs run on batteries? I thought this was a joke initially, but no, these morons are actually trying to attract investors.
Ode To a Gas Car
There are probably enough people poking jabs at the youthful climate activist Greta Thunberg without my jumping on the bandwagon, but this is all in good fun, and it’s far too clever to ignore.
How Eco-Friendly Is Electric Transportation?
Here’s a subject we haven’t covered in a while: the net eco-benefit of electric transportation. It seems so straightforward at first glace: add up all the environmental footprint associated with putting an EV on the ground, add in that of …
EV Drawbacks?
Here’s an article presenting some of the drawbacks of electric vehicles. This doesn’t explain too well why Tesla’s market cap is $806 billion. Seriously, some of these were true 10 years ago.
We Can Talk About Hydrogen, But We’ve Been Doing That for a Very Long Time
Please note that this is a conversation we’ve been having more or less continuously for almost 50 years, and the fundamental issues aren’t improving for hydrogen. It’s still inefficient, it still has a very limited delivery infrastructure, and batteries keep …
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