News & Articles on Electric Vehicles
We’ve made great strides in moving the electricity sector toward renewable energy. However, transportation remains a major source of air pollution and global warming gases. If we are to make a transition to renewable energy, we will need to electrify as much of the economy as we can, including transportation. Electrified rail is one means, electric vehicles (EVs) are another. The focus here is mostly on our experience driving EVs. We’ve been driving electric since the fall of 2014.
Rivian R1T gets dragged 100 feet after Hurricane Helene and still runs
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When Rivian said its electric pickup was built to “handle it all,” it wasn’t bluffing. A Rivian R1T owner in Asheville, North Carolina, had his vehicle dragged 100 to 150 feet after Hurricane Helene swept through the area. To even his surprise, Rivian’s electric pickup was still ready to run.
North Carolina’s Coming Run on Electric Cars
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When Hurricane Helene knocked out the power in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday, Dustin Baker, like many other people across the Southeast, turned to a backup power source. His just happened to be an electric pickup truck. Over the weekend, Baker ran extension cords from the back of his Ford F-150 Lightning, using the truck’s battery to keep his refrigerator and freezer running. It worked so well that Baker became an energy Good Samaritan. “I ran another extension cord to my neighbor so they could run two refrigerators they have,” he told me.
I surrendered charging decisions to my EV, and then worried about something else
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Instead of mapping out my own charging strategy using various apps on my smartphone, and factoring in a significant buffer in my EV’s state of charge, I let the machine do the planning. Initially, I feared pulling into an empty lot in my Hyundai Ioniq 5 somewhere just off a lonely stretch of highway, no charger to be seen and no one to blame. But the route planning software was a terrific co-pilot for me and my family. It directed us to fast-chargers over the 3,400-kilometre journey from Toronto to Nova Scotia and back that required fewer stops than last year. Whereas I might have grown nervous when my battery’s state of charge dipped below 30 per cent, the car’s software was confident with a far slimmer 10 per cent safety buffer.
Another French War Time EV: CGE’s Tudor Electrique
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From 1942-1944 during the Nazi occupation of France, the Compagnie Générale d’Électricité or CGE (no, it’s not that General Electric) …
Yes, EVs Really Do Make The Air Cleaner
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The California Air Resources Board (CARB), the government agency responsible for promoting and approving clean energy programs in the state, released a report recently stating that electric cars helped cut the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by 9.3 million metric tons in 2022 compared to the year before, or by about 2.4%. From 2000 to 2022, the state’s emissions across sectors fell by 20% while its gross domestic product increased by 78%.
More on French War Time EVs: Peugeot’s VLV
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Paul Gipe
Earlier in 2024 I came across an obscure reference to the French fortified village of Cacassonne looking for wind turbines …
