This nicely dressed fellow says, “I’ll stick with my gas-powered car,” and he’s at liberty to do that. What he won’t be able to do, however, is to prevent the end of gas and diesel power trains in favor of …
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Trump and Musk on EVs, Climate
If you were tasked with identifying a trend in human civilization that extended from the Dark Ages into the 21st Century, you might choose the development and implementation of science. Solutions in everything from medicine to mechanization to information technology …
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Hydrogen Fuel-cell Vehicles
The meme here is completely incorrect. Hydrogen fuel-cell cars have been around for decades. They take a few minutes to refill, and their range is nowhere near 1500 km. I’ve never understood the business model surrounding publishing total lies–especially if …
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The MAGA Empire Strikes Back
It would be interesting to know what’s behind the sticker like the one on this guy’s truck. Obviously, America suffers its share of anti-woke, pro-Trump sentiment, which could be self-organizing. Yet, needless to say, Big Oil may lie at the …
Adding Solar PV to Your EV
Here’s a new concept in electric transportation that I don’t expect to catch on. Imagine you park your car somewhere on a sunny day, you unlock a roof-mounted container, and pull out an array of solar PV that you then …
Satisfaction with EVs
Perhaps it’s because I’m in the business of writing material on electric transportation, or that I’m a natural extrovert (or some combination of the two), but whenever I have an easy opening to ask an EV driver about his level …
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Trump and the End of Night Flights
In his statements to his supporters, Trump has no issue with insulting the living hell out of their intelligence. Here’s a great example, where he claims that the absence of sunlight at night eliminates the feasibility of using electricity for …
Elon Musk
From a reader: So Elon made a deal to create extraordinary value for shareholders, enabled Tesla to build more EVs than most other makers put together, wasted $0 on advertising propaganda and got paid less than Ford spent on its …
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The Environmental Benefits of Electric Transportation
With the possible exception of the causes and potential cures for cancer, perhaps no subject has received more rigorous study over the past few decades than the environmental effects of replacing fossil fuels with electricity generated by a grid-mix that …
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Why So Combative, America?
Needless to say, our society is divided on many issues, and a lot of this makes sense. For instance, Trump supporters are not likely to support socialized medicine and free college tuition. I get that. But now we have meat-eaters …
