#electric vehicles

Here’s a nice quick hitter on electric trash trucks in Paris, the City of Love.  They’re quiet so you can run your collection routes at night thereby reducing traffic congestion considerably.  What’s not to love?

(Here’s a great graphic from DOE’s Energy Information Administration that shows how we deploy energy in the US.  Gas is a big factor.) I caught this comprehensive but succinct item at the NYT recently:  Time to Tap the Bounty of U.S. Natural Gas.  It lays out the fact of the astonishing ballooning of new, proven […]

An article from Reuters yesterday flagged the fact that the US fleet has been averaging more miles per gallon thus reducing gasoline use and fewer carbon dioxide emissions.  The President made an announcement on raising the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards last April but the trend to more MPG and fewer GHGs has been […]

Want to save the planet?  I do.  Want to save money, the public health, energy and not be reliant on Big Oil?  Me too. Okay, here’s the equation then:  Internal combustion engines are inherently inefficient – losing as much as 85% of the power that goes into the gas tank along the way to moving […]

Now might be a good time to talk again about the promise of the electric or fuel-cell vehicle.  Given the Gulf of Mexico disaster, one would hope that it must start to penetrate, sooner rather than later, that it is past time to leave the internal combustion engine behind.  The naysayers talk about the “romance” […]

Parade of hybrids zips through Detroit is the headline from SmartPlanet.  They give you a nice rundown of the hybrid and electric vehicles that took over the (very) big Detroit auto show.  I’m not much of a car person, but even I can tell you that just about every automaker seems to be fully on […]

Beijing authorities have announced that driving restrictions will be extended another year, as part of the city’s overall strategy to reduce airborne pollution and traffic congestion, according to reports from China’s state-run media. The plan hopes to take 930,000, or roughly 20%, of Beijing’s over 3.6 million vehicles off the road each weekday. Starting Monday, […]