I try to follow the financial news surrounding Tesla Motors, which isn’t particularly positive right now. For a couple of reasons, the success or failure of Tesla is a big deal in the world at the moment. First of all, …
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Electric Vehicles
From Guest Blogger Curt Robbins: On the Green Horizon — Toyota Mirai vs. Chevy Bolt
Anytime you take two hot topics, like green technology and automobiles, Americans are going to take note. We love our cars, regardless of their environmental impact—and probably always will. Thankfully, the automobile is finally beginning to evolve. It’s becoming more …
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Have the Environmental Benefits of Electric Vehicles Been Finally Established?
Micah (a subscriber since August, 2009–one of our very first) writes: Hi Craig, Could you point me to the body of facts that point to electric vehicles being dirtier than gas vehicles? This is news to me that it had been …
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New Style of Transportation for the 21st Century: Not Sexy, But Unique
Let me introduce this new form of transportation. I can’t claim that it’s sexy–only that it’s unique and that it will be worth the 90 seconds you spent checking it out. And I thought I had this whole subject really …
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Some Discussions Are Tough To Resolve
As shown in this conversation (see comments) my esteemed colleague Glenn Doty and I can’t seem to agree that there are circumstances where electric vehicles are good for the environment. The purpose of this post is not to further the …
Did You Hear the One About the Guy Who Goes Into a Car Dealership….
Glenn Doty, one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever known, has a wide panorama of arguments as to why EVs are bad for the environment. In response to those who say that many EV buyers nowadays also buy solar …
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Validity of Electric Vehicles – Environmentally and Otherwise
I’m not sure how many readers are following the (extensive) discussions of the validity of electric vehicles. The conversation pertains to today’s U.S. energy market—one that features coal as the resource by which incremental load on the grid is met. …
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For Most of Us, Our Styles of Driving Reflect Our Modern-Day Eco-Sensibilities
When my father taught me to drive 45 years ago he passed along his best advice on the subject, one piece of which I remember quite vividly: Don’t back up one inch farther that you need to. He told me, …
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More About the Fits and Starts in Electric Transportation
An esteemed colleague comments on my post called Fits and Starts in Electric Transportation: I hope we can agree Craig that the only long term solution is to have electrified transportation powered by renewable energy. I choose to be a part of …
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New Electric Vehicles for 2015
I have to admit that I was less than perfectly kind to the folks from Volvo, Saab and Mercedes Benz who were manning their companies’ electric vehicle booths at the Los Angeles Auto Show in the 2008-2009 time frame. I …
