Here’s an article that speaks to the role of financial incentives for electric vehicles, the point of which is that they may not be necessary in the near future. Germany, e.g., has an EV penetration rate the same as the …
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Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicle Sales Are Up–The Dawning of a New Day?
As my colleague Jon LeSage reports in the April edition of his Green Auto Digest, EV sales are approaching 1% of all vehicle sales in the U.S. But is this cause for celebration or sadness? Personally, I choose the former. …
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New Slant on VW
I was talking last night with a close friend about how much I despise Volkswagen for the crime it committed vis-à-vis the environment, and he pointed out, kindly but firmly: Wow, that’s a lot of hate you’re carrying around, and …
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Inductive Charging for Electric Vehicles
A reader notes: There are presently companies that sell an accessory that allow you to charge an EV wirelessly; regardless of the hype it is not the first system. It is also anticipated that we will be able to charge vehicles …
Electric Transportation and Ultra-Capacitors
For decades we’ve been hearing about ultra-capacitors and their potential to be used as electrical storage devices, in particular, in the service of electric vehicles. There is a lot to like about capacitors, which store electrical energy in a physical …
From Guest Blogger Christopher Austin: Electric Vehicle or Plug-in Hybrid–Which One Is Really Clean and Green?
Electricity generated for your car is considered clean provided that the method used to make that energy is also eco-friendly. Electric cars and electricity are clean at the using point. But then again, coal fired power plants make fingers to …
The New, Affordable Tesla
Here’s another extremely bullish report on electric transportation from my colleague Jon LeSage, editor of Green Car Digest. In particular, the report highlights the incredible demand for the Tesla Model 3; as of Saturday, April 2, Tesla had received 275,000 …
Bullish on Electric Transportation?
In response to my colleague Fritz Maffry’s piece gushing praise and bullishness on the electric vehicle market, frequent commenter and EV disbeliever Glenn Doty notes: Color me skeptical.
From My Wonderful Collegue, Fritz Maffry, Who Has Been Studying the Electric Transportation Market Carefully Since Its Very Inception
Even though the delivery of Tesla model 3 vehicles might be two to three years off, getting lines longer than when Apple rolls out a new phone, and 198k reservations, set up a realization for the world that a new …
How Big a Deal is the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure?
A reader comments on my post in which I predicted a fairly rapid adoption of EVs and a corresponding diminution of internal combustion engines: such an event requires advances in technology and infrastructure that don’t currently exist. While the author …
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