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Has GM overdesigned the Volt? Is a 40-mile all-electric range too much?	Joseph Romm	01 Oct 2008	Gristmill
I have an article in today's Guardian online, 'Is the Chevy Volt just hype?' I argue that the key to the near-term success for plug-ins in this country is government incentives and mandates, which in turn will critically depend on the outcome of the presidential election. But that should not be a surprise, since no country in the world has achieved significant market penetration of an alternative-fuel vehicle without major government incentives and mandates. I noted ...
Topics: economy, green living, tax incentives, electric vehicles, cars, gas prices (all these topics)

Iceland gives hydrogen the cold shoulder Electric vehicles crowd out hydrogen brethren at sustainable driving conference	Joseph Romm	27 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- Iceland has long been touted as a hydrogen economy pioneer. So it is quite shocking that electric vehicles -- both plug-in hybrids and pure battery electric cars -- crowded out hydrogen at a recent Reykjavík conference. Iceland is blessed with abudant hydro-electric opportunities, and currently generates 6.5 TWh (Terawatt hours, which is equal to a million megawatt hours) per year, ...
Topics: hydrogen, geothermal power, electric vehicles, cars, green living (all these topics)

Pickin' on the plan Pickens' natural gas plan makes no sense and will never happen	Joseph Romm	27 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- Thomas Boone Pickens is a billionaire who made his money in oil and corporate takeovers. He began investing in natural gas in 1997, and in wind power in 2007. In 2008, he went public with the Pickens Plan via a website and a well funded advertising campaign. Here we analyze the Pickens Plan, as presented here, which begins by correctly observing: America is addicted to foreign oil ...
Topics: cars, wind power, electricity, natural gas, energy, electric vehicles (all these topics)

ReGeneration Roadtrip: Driving the future Tesla's motoring toward sustainability one sports car at a time	Sarah van Schagen	25 Sep 2008	Gristmill
If you wanna talk about moving toward a greener future, surely the sexiest way to do that is in a Tesla Roadster. This car goes 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds -- faster than a Ferrari -- without guzzling a single drop of oil. All you need is about three hours plugged into the wall, and you're fully charged and ready to impress. Tesla has already delivered about 50 of the cars to eager buyers -- including familiar faces like Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Cloo ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, ReGeneration Roadtrip, video (all these topics)

ReGeneration Roadtrip: Google juice A quick stop at Google HQ	Sarah van Schagen	24 Sep 2008	Gristmill
During our travels in the Bay Area, Todd and I ended up near Mountain View and took the opportunity to make a quick stop at Google HQ. We were hoping for a tour and maybe a lunch at their super-sustainable cafeteria, but apparently the place is closed to the public so all we ended up with was a free bottle of juice. Well, that and a quick little video of the parking lot -- which is actually a lot more exciting than it sounds. The parking lot is covered wit ...
Topics: video, electric vehicles, solar voltaic power, green living, ReGeneration Roadtrip (all these topics)

Honda, unplugged Chrysler, Mazda, Hyundai, and Nissan announce plug-in hybrids -- but not Honda	Joseph Romm	23 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The number of companies planning plug-in hybrids is growing steadily. Some recent announcements can be found here. Calcars maintains an excellent update on 'How carmakers are responding to the plug-in hybrid opportunity.' As for Honda, last year, The Wall Street Journal reported: Honda Motor Co. Chief Executive Takeo Fukui said so-called plug-in hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles [PHEVs] offered too few environmental benefits for his company to pursue, and noted th ...
Topics: tech, business, cars, electric vehicles (all these topics)

Volt reality check Chevy Volt not so revolutionary	biodiversivist	22 Sep 2008	Gristmill
For those of you who missed it, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz hit the talk show circuit last week to talk up the latest incarnation of the Chevy Volt (more on his boneheaded climate change comments here and here). The marketing goal is to create the public perception that the Volt is an electric car (get it, volt?), to differentiate it from competitors like the Prius, which are mere hybrids. It may work, and I'm OK with that as long as it sells low-emission cars. Look at ...
Topics: business, tech, messaging, electric vehicles, cars, Big Auto (all these topics)

Tesla profile in New Scientist	Sara Barz	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
For those upset about the bashing electric vehicles have taken recently, check out this glowing profile ($ub. req'd) of Tesla -- and its Roadster -- in New Scientist magazine today. The Roadster does 0-60 in four seconds, tops out at 130 mph, and only costs $109,000 (sigh ... not in this writer's budget this year). Pedestrians and cyclists beware, the Roadster's 248 horsepower electric engine makes less noise than a golf-cart, but its 450 kg lithium-ion battery would pac ...
Topics: green living, cars, electric vehicles (all these topics)

The revolution will not be grumpetized The automotive revolution: how fast?	David Roberts	17 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Wall Street Journal senior editor Joseph B. White attempts to dump some cold water on the "automotive revolution" everyone's all giddy about: This revolution will take years to pull off -- and that's assuming it isn't derailed by a return to cheap oil. Anyone who goes to sleep today and wakes up in five years will find that most cars for sale in the U.S. will still run on regular gas -- with a few more than today taking diesel fuel. That will likely be ...
Topics: cars, economy, electric vehicles, green living (all these topics)

Confusing future presidents, part 2 Physics For Future Presidents twists facts on electric vehicles and nuclear blasts	Joseph Romm	16 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- Part 1 of this book review looked at the (mis)handling of climate science in two books by Professor Richard A. Muller -- his textbook and general public book, which, confusingly, are both named Physics for Future Presidents. Here I turn to portions of the general public book, such as the chapters on climate solutions, his treatment of terrorist nukes, and even his unsubstantiated dissi ...
Topics: books, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, national security, nuclear power (all these topics)

Taxi!	Adam Browning	11 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Gas prices getting you down? Take a free ride in the Solartaxi. ....adding: just don't try it in Alaska.
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

X-Prize	Adam Browning	08 Sep 2008	Gristmill
In San Francisco this Friday, the Long Now Foundation will host a talk by Peter Diamandis, founder and Chairman of the X Prize Foundation, on X-Prizes. Here's a YouTube taster. It got me thinking. Large prizes are great for stimulating the public's imagination, but do they make for good public policy? Take John McCain's proposal for a taxpayer funded $300 million dollar prize for a breakthrough auto battery. The market opportunity for a true battery breakthrough is ...
Topics: business, tech, electric vehicles, San Francisco, events (all these topics)

Who recharged the electric car? Showcase offers electric vehicle test-drives at DNC; review of an eBox	Sara Barz	28 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In the midst of the mayhem that is the Democratic National Convention in Denver, 10 electric vehicles can be found zipping along the streets of Denver or idling at the corner of Speer and Champa. Boulder County, Colo. delegate Nate Vanderschaaf brought them to Denver as part of the Electric Vehicle Rolling Showcase -- a personal effort to leverage his position as a delegate to bring attention to (and free rides in) electric vehicles at the convention. eBox. Photo ...
Topics: cars, Democratic National Convention, electric vehicles, green living (all these topics)

Upright primates on wheels Cycling news from around the world	biodiversivist	28 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Recently, I came across a Time magazine article with the pithy title 'Electric Bikes Sell as Gas Climbs.' (Apparently, for the first time in my life, I'm helping to set a trend instead of being oblivious to it.) Here's a close-up of the bike being ridden in the article. It certainly looks cool. I have no idea how well it actually performs other than it takes the standard five hours to charge. From Time: ... sales [of electric bikes in general] are up about 50 percen ...
Topics: bikes, electric vehicles, green living (all these topics)

The (renewable) electron economy, part 6 Why electricity is the energy carrier of choice	Michael Hoexter	22 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Our already substantial 120-year investment in an electric infrastructure in industrial countries, makes the transition to a electricity based energy economy less expensive. There are sound physical reasons why the three main contenders for the energy supply for transport turn out to be the three electron economies: renewables, nuclear, and coal CCS. We have determined there that electric drive vehicles either attached to the grid or powered by some vers ...
Topics: biomass, cars, electric vehicles, electricity, energy, public transportation (all these topics)

Charge! Electric-car visionary would overhaul the way we get around		19 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 7:55 AM on 19 Aug 2008 Could the global auto infrastructure be overhauled in a way that's profitable for business, cheap for drivers, and easy on the planet? Meet Better Place's Shai Agassi and his plans for an electric-car future, featured in the latest issue of Wired. In Agassi's vision, gas stations are replaced with omnipresent recharging spots for electric cars. Vehicles are cheap, perhaps even free; money is mad ...
Topics: business, cars, Denmark, electric vehicles, energy, innovation, Israel, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Making a Plug Chevy Volt gets prettied up, almost ready for testing		15 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 11:59 AM on 15 Aug 2008 The design phase of the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt is "essentially finished," General Motors declared Thursday. The new design is more aerodynamic than the concept Volt unveiled in Jan. 2007, allowing the car to travel solely on battery power for at least 40 miles, according to GM. The automaker hopes to have a few prototypes ready for testing within the next 10 days, and 50 available b ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news (all these topics)

The (renewable) electron economy, part 5 More ideas for a post-oil society	Michael Hoexter	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is the fifth in a series on how we can build an energy future based on our best science and no longer critically dependent upon exhaustible and polluting fossil fuels. Promoting battery and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles Governments can play a key role in promoting electric vehicles by buying electric vehicles en masse and helping develop battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric fleets and fleet systems. With current technology, battery electric tr ...
Topics: electric vehicles, energy, fossil fuels, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

More EEStor lore for the hardcore EEStor founder says things are on track for commercial production in 2009	David Roberts	12 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Those of you have have been following the EEStor saga will want to check out this new article in Technology Review and this blog post, both by Tyler Hamilton. Seems EEStor founder and CEO Dick Weir is finally starting to open up to the press, and he reports that things are on schedule for commercial production in 2009. If you don't recall, EEStor is working on a solid-state supercapacitor -- an electrical energy storage unit , or EESU -- that will store three times mo ...
Topics: electric vehicles, electricity grid, green living, tech (all these topics)

The (renewable) electron economy, part 4 Toward the post-oil society	Michael Hoexter	12 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is the fourth in a series on how we can build an energy future based on our best science and no longer critically dependent upon exhaustible and polluting fossil fuels. The tripartite approach allows our society to cut oil demand and dependence substantially within a decade, much more quickly than a sole reliance on electrification of the autonomous vehicle fleet through sales of battery-electric and plug in hybrid vehicles. Combining these vehicles with th ...
Topics: electric vehicles, energy, fossil fuels, placemaking, public transportation, trains (all these topics)

The (renewable) electron economy, part 3 A three-pronged approach to getting off oil for transportation	Michael Hoexter	10 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is the third in a series on how we can build an energy future based on our best science and no longer critically dependent upon exhaustible and polluting fossil fuels. Getting off oil: a three-pronged approach Oil is not 'evil,' it's an undervalued resource that has been squandered on tasks that could be much more efficiently achieved through the use of electric drive transport. Cheap oil has enabled individual and family mobility and autonomy at a low ...
Topics: electric vehicles, energy, fossil fuels, hybrids, placemaking, public transportation, trains (all these topics)

Japanese automakers plugged-in Toyota at work on commercial plug-in hybrids, Mitsubishi to offer electric car	biodiversivist	30 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Plug-in Prius. Photo: unmediastudio Call me an optimist, but a feasible plug-in appears to be just over the horizon. First, Toyota has several plug-in Priuses being driven in Japan to collect data -- technical and human behavioral. They are sticking with NiMH batteries for now. Next, Honda is finally getting ready to launch the much-needed Prius alternative. There are a lot of people out there who refuse to buy a Prius for various reasons that would ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids (all these topics)

What can we do about oil? Short, medium, and long-term solutions to phase out oil	Gar Lipow	29 Jul 2008	Gristmill
As opposed to emission or energy, what can we do about oil? As I've said in the past: not a lot. But 'not a lot' is not equal to zero. Here are some pretty immediate things we can do: There have been some real drops in oil use in response to increased prices. I think Charles Komanoff once suggested that various types of conservation and efficiency measures could reduce oil use 10 percent more or less overnight [PDF]. Many of his suggestions are not exactly pain ...
Topics: electric vehicles, energy, fossil fuels, oil, public transportation (all these topics)

Efficiency first! Part one There's only one way to get big near-term carbon reductions	Guest author	28 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Ned Ford, Energy Chair of the Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club and a member of the Club's national Global Warming and Energy Committee. Ford has been actively promoting electric utility efficiency strategies since 1983. This is the first in a two-part series. ----- If we want to stabilize atmospheric CO2 at 450 ppm around 2050 -- the minimum necessary, which still might carry major impacts -- we need to achieve at least 2 percent av ...
Topics: electric vehicles, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy (all these topics)

Oil gone wild Transportation sector lies at the root of U.S. energy problem	Guest author	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Jack D. Hidary, chair of SmartTransportation.org and the Freedom Prize Foundation. It was originally published on the Huffington Post and is republished here with the author's permission. The price of oil struck an ominous chord for the U.S. economy with yesterday's record trade of $147 per barrel. At these prices we are sending more than $1 million every minute of every day to oil rich countries. As oil hits a new high the dollar has h ...
Topics: electric vehicles, energy, energy efficiency, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

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