The world seems to get smaller with every generation as we find faster ways to get from one place to another. Our ancestors traveled on crowded ships and spent weeks at sea to get to a different country. We can …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
From Guest Blogger Anica Oaks: Pollution Solutions–Why You Should Choose a Green Vehicle
The transportation industry is the fastest growing emitter of greenhouse gases. When buying a new car, most people only focus the car’s price against its performance, reliability, comfort, and safety. However, a vehicle costs are more than just its price …
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Fuel Efficiency Rating for EVs Make No Sense, But That Doesn’t Stop Us from Assigning Them
In this edition of Green Auto Digest, my colleague Jon LeSage (pictured) gets at an issue that struck me when I first got interested in electric transportation: the EPA’s mile-per-gallon ratings. We seem married to assigning MPG equivalents to EVs, even …
From Guest Blogger Meghan Belnap: Why Energy-Efficient Vehicles are the Way to Go
Much of our lives are shaped around our vehicles. They bring us to work, home, and around the country easily. Advancements in vehicular technology since the days of Henry Ford have been monumental and are continuing. With rising concerns about …
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How Much Longer Will Toyota Be Pursuing Fuel Cell Vehicles?
From this edition of Green Auto Digest: While Toyota and a few other global automakers are taking hydrogen fuel cell vehicles quite seriously, the clean technology’s chances of reaching mass adoption are still far away.
Examining the Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles
As is apparent from this article, we’re still not grasping the main issue associated with the eco-impact of EVs, which is “what energy source is used to address incremental but predictable loads on the grid when EV are charged?” If the …
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When It Comes To the Environment, China Is BIG
China sits atop the world in most important environmental categories.
EVs and the Grid Conference
Whenever I attend an energy conference, I introduce myself to dozens of strangers, never knowing what experience I’m about to encounter. Though very few of these handshakes turn into relationships that last longer than a short one-time conversation, virtually every …
Unique Concept in EV Charging?
Someday, will drones be launched with lots of stored electrical energy onboard, attach to your electric vehicle, and charge it en route, as suggested in this article in GreenTechMedia? Uh….no. Of at least 50 ideas I’ve seen for EV charging, …
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Shell Oil Gets It
Of the nearly 8000 posts here, there are at least a couple of dozen in which I’ve acknowledged that Royal Dutch Shell is the least obnoxious of the major oil companies. They are fully onboard with anthropogenic climate change, they …
