The electrification of transportation is a multifaceted project, including, at a minimum:
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Electric Vehicles
Good News for Transportation in Europe, and It’s Right Around the Corner
Tagged with: charging infrastructure
What Will Happen With Oil?
Here’s another article that speculates on the ultimate disposition of oil in our civilization. Prices are going up, which usually means more revenues and earnings for the oil companies. But what happens in an environment where consumers can jump to …
Tagged with: access to cheap oil, climate change and other forms of environmental devastation, government subsidies for the oil companies, internalize the externalities of fossil fuel exploration and consumption, investments in cleantech, revenues and earnings for the oil companies, ultimate disposition of oil in our civilization
Clean Transportation Vs. States’ Rights–It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
The federal government is doing everything in its power to dismantle the environmental progress the U.S. has made in the last half century, but it’s facing stiff opposition from the more progressive states.
Tagged with: Electric Vehicles
From Guest Blogger Jenny Harrison: Green Living–What You Can Expect from the Smart Cars of the Future
It’s not a surprise that soon our roads will be occupied with driverless autonomous cars driving their way through the roads like it’s a matter of daily activity.
It Features Wireless Charging, But Perhaps Not in the Way You Envisioned It
I just had an amusing experience that I thought I’d share. Here’s an ad for an SUV that offers “wireless charging, no strings attached.” Naturally, I thought to myself: “Cool, an EV that features inductive charging; I knew we’d get …
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Tagged with: wireless charging
Lots of Things Simply Will Not Happen In Renewable Energy
We’ve all heard that “there is a first time for everything.” What this means, of course, is that there is a first time for everything that actually happens. Lots of things don’t happen.
Some Are Lying about Resurrecting Jobs from the Dinosaur Economy, Others Are Creating the Future
Here’s a press release a friend sent me, along with my comments: CHARLOTTE, NC» Electric car maker Tesla Inc. is fostering community college training programs for what could be new blue-collar jobs as mechanics for the growing number of battery-powered vehicles.
An American Saga: The Ongoing Struggle Over Pollution from our Cars and Trucks
In this corner, we have Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, continuing in its ferocious assault on fuel mileage and pollution standards for cars sold within the United States. The prospective winners? The car companies. The losers: Everyone with lungs.
Plotting a Course Towards Sustainable Energy Means Bringing Many Disparate Technologies Together
In response to my bearish post the other day on vehicle-to-grid, Gary Tulie writes this terse note: A project was recently launched in the UK to install 1000 vehicle to grid capable chargers. There is no doubt that a clean …
To the Astonishment of Many, Low-Carbon Fuel Standards Summit Dominated By the Petroleum Industry
As I wrote yesterday from the California Carbon & Low-Carbon Fuel Standards Summit, many in attendance were shocked and dismayed to see that the second half of the keynote address was delivered by a spokesperson from the Western States Petroleum …
