In the 10 years I’ve known Kansas City-based cleantech businessman Fritz Maffry, I’ve always been impressed with his understanding of the macro issues associated with energy and transportation. Fortunately, Fritz has the wonderful habit of jotting down his thoughts periodically …
Tag: Electric Vehicles
From Guest Blogger Rebecca Hill: Eight Reasons EVs are the Future of Transportation
Whether you’re glued to Google headlines or the New York Times, reading the next headline about electric vehicles probably gives you a rush. Perhaps, it was news of Apple’s interest in charging stations that caught your attention. Or maybe it’s …
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Feelin’ Good at the Top Show for Alternative Fuel Vehicles
At the ACTExpo (alternative fuel vehicle show) that I attended yesterday, it was gratifying to see so many manufacturers of large trucks sticking with compressed natural gas, even in the face of seriously low diesel prices. Maybe it’s just …
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Electric Transportation and Ultra-Capacitors
For decades we’ve been hearing about ultra-capacitors and their potential to be used as electrical storage devices, in particular, in the service of electric vehicles. There is a lot to like about capacitors, which store electrical energy in a physical …
From Guest Blogger Christopher Austin: Electric Vehicle or Plug-in Hybrid–Which One Is Really Clean and Green?
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 …
From Guest Blogger Jordan: Tesla Keeps Getting New Competitors from China
Given the obvious and imminent shift of the auto industry from gasoline-powered vehicles toward electric cars, it’s no wonder that there are many new companies entering the electric car market, trying to compete with the established global automakers. The fact …
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Efficient Drivetrains Is Starting to Take the Electric Transportation World By Storm
Check out the progress that my client “Efficient Drivetrains” is making. A few months ago, I sent a couple of eager investors their way, both anxious to fund their “C” round, and I believe a deal is in the offing. …
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Tagged with: Efficient Drivetrains, electric drive, electric transportation, Electric Vehicles, “C” round
From Guest Blogger Jordan: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Would Be Reduced By 90 Percent If All Vehicles Were Driverless, Study Says
Safer roads and less congestion are the obvious advantages of driverless cars, but a new study says that the technology has the potential to bring substantial environmental benefits, as well. Eliminating the driver will definitely help improve traffic safety, given …
Viewpoints on the Migration to Renewable Energy
A colleague writes: Just finished Facts and Fantasies. Very informative, very readable. I dog-eared a bunch of pages to come back to later for reference. I’ll tackle “Doable” this week and eventually we’ll have a discussion about them. I suspect …
Tagged with: Electric Vehicles, irreparable level of harm to the environment, migration away from fossil fuels, power utility model, recognition of the realities of climate change, Renewable Energy Facts and Fantasies, renewable energy tough realities, transition to renewables, wind energy in the grid-mix
Want To Compete in EV Charging Stations? I’m Not Sure You’re Barking Up the Right Tree
A long-time 2GreenEnergy reader proposes to build an EV charging network along the California coastline (aka Route 1, aka (in many places) the Pacific Coast Highway). There are a couple of main challenges I believe he’ll face: Working Around the …
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