If you want to live an eco-friendly lifestyle, choosing a fuel-efficient vehicle should be a top priority. Fortunately, today’s car market has some exciting models to choose from. Here are four green cars that deserve some serious consideration.
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
Looking Beyond the White House for Strategic Planning in Clean Transportation
My colleague Jon LeSage writes in his Green Auto Digest: The Trump administration is keeping the president’s campaign promises supporting fossil fuels and pushing back on clean energy and efficient, clean transport. The State Department’s approval of the Keystone XL …
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Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo
Almost time again for the ACT Expo held annually in mid-spring (May 1 – 4 this year) at the Long Beach Convention Center. It’s a great opportunity to meet colleagues, and learn about the amazing developments in alt fuel cars …
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Gutting Vehicle Emissions Standards…..ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I’m hesitant to write posts that are completely predictable in their content. Does anyone want to read that the sun rose in the east this morning? OK, since you’re still here, the Trump administration’s EPA, run by career EPA opponent …
E-bikes Are Happening
I’ve been asked to head-up the marketing role in an international group that will further popularize the role that electric bicycles play in our rapidly advancing world of low-carbon transportation. Getting this done effectively will require some research, thought, and …
Solar Powered Ambulance
2GreenEnergy associate Gary Tulie sent me this piece on a light, three-wheeled solar PV-powered ambulance, largely for use in third-world countries like Bangladesh. It’s a cool idea, and the writing is incredible. I love the first paragraph, comparing high-end Teslas …
Electric Bikes: An Important Tool in Reducing Transportation’s Carbon Footprint
Writing for SustainableBrands.com, Libby MacCarthy begins her article on electric bikes: Government-led initiatives designed to cut carbon emissions and reduce air pollution in cities, though well-intentioned, often come under fire from those who stand the most to gain from them …
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VW’s Plans for the Future Include Electric Vehicles—Whether They Wanted To Go in that Direction Or Not
In a few weeks, I have an appointment to meet with a representative of VW USA to turn in my car, a Jetta TDI (diesel), one of 11 million vehicles in the emissions scandal, and receive a check for its …
Battery Prices Going the Same Way as All Other Aspects of Clean Energy: DOWN.
Here’s a graph for those who said that battery prices could never fall far enough to make electric transportation effective.
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EVs and Inductive Charging
2GreenEnergy supporter and clean energy DIYer extraordinaire Brian McGowan sent me this piece on a company that proposes wireless (inductive) charging of electric vehicles as they’re driven across our major roadways. My comments:
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