Question: What country just became the world’s first to reduce VMT with free public transportation?
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
Electrifying Everything and Cleaning the Grid-Mix
It’s useful to think about the phase-out of fossil fuels in favor of renewables in three steps:
Electric Transportation 2019 Predictions : Yet Another Record?
My colleague Jon LeSage, who writes the Green Auto Digest, provides the world an extremely valuable service–at absolutely no cost. It’s essentially everything you need to know about the progress that electric transportation and other alt-fueled vehicles are making, including …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Electric Buses
Question: What country in Latin America has the largest fleet of electric buses? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
How Sincere Is ExxonMobil?
Here’s a short video in which ExxonMobil purports to want hydrogen-based transportation. Ask yourself: Do you think this is in any way sincere?
Should Trump Learn about Technology?
In his most recent post here, tech maven Fritz Maffry notes: We are previewing (electric transportation and autonomous technology but this subject) flies in the face of Donald Trump’s saying electric cars won’t work. The president should go to CES (Consumer …
Tagged with: electric transportation and autonomous technology
From Tech Maven Fritz Maffry: Consumer Electronics Show and More
CES 2019 is about here, this category is the game changer The real smart city of consequence is about to be demonstrated, with many flavors of light-duty autonomous shuttles being shown. Makers include Navya, Local Motors, Bosch, Fisker, Rinspeed, Nuro, …
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California Setting the Pace
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Cameron Atwood writes: California has mandated all new buses be electric by 2020 and all buses electric by 2040. This move is expected to lower the cost of heavy duty electric vehicles like trucks and tractors.
Holland Loves Bikes
In the U.S., we talk about encouraging the use of bicycles as a way to reduce VMT (vehicle miles traveled), but we do very little to actually encourage this transition.
No More Chevy Volt
GM is ceasing production of the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt, and their explanation seems to hold water: given the significant developments in pure, battery EVs and the build-out of the nation’s charging infrastructure, there is an ever-diminishing demand for gasoline-powered …
