Category: Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

As reported by my colleague Jon LeSage in his terrific publication Green Auto Digest, the most influential car show in the world, The Paris Auto Show, is featuring an enormous range of electric vehicles, spurred on at least in some …

Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal Has Silver Lining Read More »

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  My first reaction to the concept of autonomous cars was not a good one.  You want to replace the driver?  We like driving.  How about replacing some of the things that we don’t like, e.g., the fuel that’s ruining …

Check Out What Singapore’s Doing in Autonomous Vehicles Read More »

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Volvo is now jumping into the electric car market. The automaker recently unveiled two concept vehicles that were designed and built to ultimately support the company’s first all-electric vehicles to go into production. Both of vehicles will utilize Compact Modular …

A Contributed Post: Volvo Making Good on Their Electrification Strategy Read More »

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If you believe that personal urban transportation has an important future (which I do), here’s a really clever design that looks safe, fun, attractive—and potentially cost-effective.  Readers will note that I support a similar design (on the 2GreenEnergy “clean energy …

Cool Concept in Personal Transportation Read More »

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In response to my piece on the Environmental Impact of Electric Transportation, frequent commenter MarcoPolo wonders, mockingly, how it’s possible that many EV advocates don’t own EVs.  I suppose that, by extension, he’s implying that any environmentalists who doesn’t adopt …

Under What Circumstances Are Environmentalists Hypocritical? Read More »

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Frequent commenter “Breath on the Wind” provides some very interesting and important math in response to my recent post about charging electric vehicles. His central point is that the incremental amount of load on the grid associated with converting all …

The Environmental Impact of Electric Transportation Read More »

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Here’s an article on Volkswagen’s ambitions for its line of electric vehicles.  Note that it claims a range of 300 miles (at 3 miles/KWh) and a charging time of 15 minutes. That’s nice as long as you have a 400KW …

VW’s Talking about Electric Vehicles Read More »

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As our society strives to be more environmentally responsible, the impact of harmful emissions becomes increasingly taboo. Reducing individual emissions is one step toward diminishing our collective carbon footprint. Hybrid and electric vehicles, such as “green” motorcycles, are one way …

From Guest Blogger Kara Mastersen: Four Reasons Why “Green” Motorcycles Are Gaining Popularity Read More »

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Recently releases, Porsche’s new model – the 918 Spyder – seems quite promising. It is the perfect blend between a Carrera GT, Boxter and 911. The design is a blended concept, and experts in the auto business argue that it …

From Guest Blogger Christopher Austin: Porsche 918 Spyder Plug-In Hybrid Could Be Their First True Green Car Read More »

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Here, my colleague Jon LeSage reports on the rebirth of the Fisker Karma, called the Karma Revero, a super-luxury plug-in hybrid.  Jon knows more about this than I do, but personally, I don’t pick this to do any better than …

How Big Is the Market for High-End Range-Extended Electric Vehicles? Read More »

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