Over the last couple of months, there has been a lot of hype around hydrogen-powered cars, with Toyota, Honda and Hyundai planning to roll out hydrogen fuel cell vehicles by 2015, claiming that they have many advantages over electric and …
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A Collaboration on Fuel Cell Vehicles — But Exactly Whose Interests Are At Stake? Not Yours.
Here’s an article that describes a collaboration between GM and BMW on fuel cell vehicles. Wow, that’s remarkable. Just when I had started to trust the car companies based on the sincerity of Nissan/Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn and his people who …
Comments to "GM and the Chevy Volt – Can They Be Trusted?"
I received no fewer than 19 comments (and counting) to the post I put up on Renewable Energy World on “GM and Chevy Volt – Can They Be Trusted?” I knew this would be a hot topic. I notice how …
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Can We Trust General Motors?
You’ll travel far to find someone with more provocative and important observations on the subject of transportation than Chelsea Sexton.
Electric Vehicles and the "David and Goliath” Metaphor
We certainly see a great deal of the old “David and Goliath” metaphor in our conversations in this industry – especially in electric transportation. Though a number of EV start-ups have gone belly-up over the past few years, there are …
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Electric Vehicle History — Setting the Record Straight
My much respected friend Wally Rippel asks that I publish something to set the record straight on the early days of electric transportation. Here goes: According to the movie Who Killed the Electric Car? “after the success of the Sunraycer, …
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Thoughts on the EV Adoption Curve
Every so often, I like to write a short article that gets us thinking about the rate at which electric vehicles will be assilimated into our culture and brought onto our roads, replacing internal combustion engines. Here are a few …
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Peak Oil
I’m hoping that readers of my upcoming book on renewables will enjoy my conversation with Matt Simmons, arguably the loudest voice on the issue of peak oil. And, although the subject remains controversial, it’s probably a good deal less so …
