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 …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
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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Alternative Auto Fuels
Here’s an interesting table from the Alternative Fuels Data Center: Infrastructure: US Fueling and Charging Stations
Predicting the Electric Vehicle Adoption Curve
Regular commenter BreathOnTheWind sent me this piece on the rise of electric transportation, and how this phenomenon will disempower OPEC. Can’t happen soon enough. My only objection (a point I’ve made dozens of times) is the forecasted perfectly smooth …
Electric Vehicles: There’s More At Stake Here Than Simply an Evolution in Transportation
Commenting on my recent post of the electric vehicle market’s being in the tank, a libertarian reader writes a note that concludes: EV’s will continue to improve, but it’s an evolution, not a revolution. I’m with you on most of …
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Grim News for Electric Transportation
As reported by my brilliant colleague Jon LeSage in his Green Auto Digest, the electric vehicle market is in the tank, largely due to the fact that prices of gasoline have fallen in half. How much longer will gas prices …
Nissan LEAF Losing Ground in the Electric Vehicle Space
Here’s an excerpt from this week’s Green Auto Digest, published by my colleague Jon LeSage: Plug-in electric vehicle sales were up substantially month-over-month and year-over-year – 17% over January and 6.7% over February 2014. The Tesla Model S, Chevrolet Volt, …
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