Looks like electric vehicle sales are picking up. What’s the attraction that lies behind the surge (pardon the pun)? According to this, it’s HOV-lane access for EV drivers. That may sound pretty dumb to you folks in Casper, Wyoming. But …
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Electric Vehicles and Clean Energy: Moving Beyond Hydrocarbon Fuels
In response to my piece on the electric vehicle adoption curve, in which I suggested that EVs represented more than a “niche” market, frequent commenter and senior physicist Glenn Doty wrote: Most of those multi-car households have one SUV or …
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Are Electric Vehicles a Niche Market?
Here’s an article on emerging battery technologies that will greatly improve the calculus under which electric vehicles will be adopted into the mainstream, focusing on the work IBM is doing in lithium-air. After some level of technical analysis, the author …
Proponents of Cleantech Have Some Good Ideas — And Some Bad Ones Too
I come across new ideas for renewable energy and alternate fuel vehicles at a rate of perhaps a dozen a week. While (fortunately) there are a few good ones, most of them fail the most basic tests of science and …
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Tagged with: alternate fuel vehicles, electric transportation, Electric Vehicles, EVs, hybrids, Renewable Energy, WattShocks
Green Auto Digest’s Stakeholder Advisory Board
Starting in June, I’ll be wearing yet another hat in this space. I just accepted an invitation to become a member of the “Stakeholder Advisory Board” for Green Auto Digest. The board will convene monthly, helping sort out thorny issues …
Electric Vehicles Require Better Consumer Value Proposition, Cleaner Power
Here’s a video interview I gave at a recent electric vehicle conference, in which I argue that an appealing consumer value proposition for EVs is what will drive adoption. Obviously, at the same time, we need to find a way …
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Webinar: Electric Trucks
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGaE_Lb3gtY] My guest here was Dr. Brooks Agnew, CEO of Vision Motors, creator of affordable light-duty battery-electric trucks that will soon be manufactured in the United States and India. As we’ve seen all too frequently over the last few …
Tagged with: Brooks Agnew, electric transportation, electric trucks, Electric Vehicles, EVs, Vision Motor Cars
May’s Webinar: Electric Trucks
Sorry for the last-minute notice, but if you’re available tomorrow at 1 PM EDT (10 AM PDT), and you’re looking for some insight into the electric vehicle market (electric trucks in particular), please join Dr. Brooks Agnew, CEO of Vision …
Purveyors of Electric Vehicles Need To Offer a Reasonable Business Proposition
Here’s a press release (dressed as a news article) from Aerovironment, a company with a division that makes electric vehicle chargers. And here’s a line from it that reminds me of the adage: “If the only tool you have is …
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Prospective Electric Vehicle Owners Analyze Break-Even Point on Fuel Costs
Cameron Atwood writes: I recall seeing figures indicating the $45k Volt pays off the difference in savings on gas over electric cost over its ICE (internal combustion engine) brethren in six years. That’s not especially dismal. It depends on how …
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