Tag: EV consumer value proposition

Here’s a consumer-oriented piece from the U.S. Department of Energy: 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Electric Vehicles.  Nicely done. There are a couple of issues with EVs, however, that make this a trickier issue than the article implies: • Even …

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A reader asked that I comment on this fairly euphoric piece, suggesting that the world economy can and will be revived with the aggressive adoption of electric transportation and photovoltaics. Here are a few bits and pieces of my reaction. …

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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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Glenn Doty points out a flaw in my recent piece about electric transportation. He writes: (The Carnegie Mellon University study) assumes a life-cycle grid emissions profile of 615 g-CO2E/kWh. That is blatant BS. The impact of new marginal electricity demand …

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