Articles by
Paul Gipe
Parkinson’s Alley: Why Bakersfield
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Paul Gipe
Presentation by Paul Gipe before the Buena Vista Group of the Kern-Kaweah Chapter of the Sierra Club 7 November 2026. ... Read more
2027 Bolt Average Charging Rate 1,500 Mile Road Trip
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Paul Gipe
We completed another 1,500-mile road trip this time to Crater Lake and Lassen National Parks. We’ve taken this route north ... Read more
2027 Bolt Traction Battery Degradation after 12,000 Miles
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Paul Gipe
The short answer is there hasn’t been any degradation of the traction battery of our 2027 Bolt after nearly 12,000 ... Read more
More on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from EV & ICE Vehicles
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Paul Gipe
RMI, formerly the Rocky Mountain Institute, in a new report comparing the carbon dioxide emissions from EVs and Internal Combustion ... Read more
Balcony Solar Tops 1.5 Million Systems in Germany
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Paul Gipe
Alexander Jacob reports in an annual analysis of Germany’s burgeoning balcony solar market that the total number of systems registered ... Read more
2027 Chevy Bolt Six-Month Update Including Update on Odd Noise Issue and Tesla Plug & Charge
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Paul Gipe
After more than six months of driving the 2027 Bolt, I feel comfortable with the car and have made all ... Read more
Renewable Energy Nears 60% of German Electricity
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Paul Gipe
In what was once unthinkable, renewable energy from sun, wind, water, and biomass has generated 59.1 percent of German electricity ... Read more
Balcony Solar May Become a Reality in California
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Paul Gipe
Balcony solar, or plug-in solar for us Yankees, may actually become a thing in California. The state legislature passed plug-in ... Read more
2027 Bolt Tips for Beginners and Newbies
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Paul Gipe
Because I write about our experience owning EVs, I sometimes get a query “over the transom” as we say, asking ... Read more
British Wind Bids 2026
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Paul Gipe
Uptime Tech News (uptimetechnews@substack.com) recently reported bids for both onshore and offshore wind in Great Britain. “In what is expected ... Read more
UMass Wind Furnace Photos Posted to Wikimedia Commons
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Paul Gipe
In response to Peter Fairley’s excellent historical review of UMass’ Wind Furnace project in IEEE Spectrum, (See This 1976 University ... Read more
2027 Chevy Bolt Matches Bakersfield to Horse Meadow Efficiency
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Paul Gipe
As in our previous trip to the Southern Sierra Nevada and return to Bakersfield, the 2027 Chevy Bolt matched the ... Read more
