You’ve purchased a city recycle bin; you’ve changed your light bulbs to be more efficient, and you’ve been repurposing all of your old things instead of buying new things. You’re green and you’re proud. It’s not easy, after all, and …
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Electric Vehicles
From Guest Blogger Amy Nielson: How to Choose an Insurance Company That's as Eco-friendly as You Are
Cost-Justifying EV Charging Stations
As evidenced by this article, building EV charging stations that combine solar charging, batteries, and grid backup is still considered news, though there have been hundreds of examples of systems that do this. In fact, one of my “Craig Shields …
Tagged with: batteries, Craig Shields - At Your Service, EV charging stations, grid backup, solar energy
Examining the Reduction in Vehicle Miles Traveled
In response to my piece about a recent reduction in VMT (vehicle miles traveled), frequent commenter Larry Lemmert writes: I don’t think that this decline has anything to do with altruistic motives. People are driving less because their income is …
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What Does the Decline in Vehicle Miles Traveled Mean?
Here’s an interesting graphic that suggests a phenomenon that my colleague Jeff Siegel calls “peak car” – a definitive decline in the number of vehicle miles traveled in the U.S. Granted, there are numerous factors that come together to push a …
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Cars Running on Compressed Air
A reader points out: French automaker Peugeot Citroen has invented a brand new air-powered hybrid. The ‘Hybrid Air’ system uses compressed air to move the car’s wheels when driving under 43 mph. Peugeot says the new hybrid system should get …
The Adoption Curve for Electric Vehicles
Here’s an article that presents some specious logic associated with electric vehicle adoption. In particular, the greening of conventional vehicles militates away from, not towards, the adoption of EVs; the payback in fuel consumption for an EV is far more …
Tagged with: adoption of EVs, coal plants retired, coal-fired power plants, distributed generation, electric vehicle adoption, EV range, fossil fuel consumption, fossil fuels, greening of conventional vehicles, internalizing the externalities of gasoline, mid-sized wind, nuclear power plants, off-peak power, opportunity charging locations, smart grid, Tesla’s fast-charging locations, V2G, vehicle-to-grid, wind energy curtailed, wind energy negative prices
Carrots and Sticks: Rethinking Mobility
It’s always interesting to see what people are doing around the world with respect to pushing the paradigm shift in transportation. The concept of individual ownership of a 4000-pound car that is parked 23 hours a day, and has one …
From Guest Blogger R. Hoyal: Should Corporate Company Cars Be Electric?
Congratulations. You have finally made it from the mailroom, to that position at the top of the business tree. If you want to spend your hard-earned wages on a brand new car then feel free. Sites such as Carsales always …
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Tagged with: BIK, business, businesses, Carbon Footprint, cars, CO2, company car, Corporate, Corporations, eco, electric, emissions, environmental, environmentally-friendly, green, hybrid, Plug-in Car Grant, profit, vehicle, vehicles
Paradigm Shift in Personal Mobility
At yesterday’s conference at UCLA — The Financial Implications of Going Green — I happened to sit in front of a graduate student in corporate sustainability – I forget the exact name of her program. When I asked what she was learning, she told …
From Guest Blogger Hank Young: Why Go Hybrid In 2013?
2013 is looking to be a promising year for auto companies after the industry helped propel the economy through 2012 with a monumental comeback and record sales since the beginning of the recession in 2008. According to The Polk research …
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