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.
Diesels are Dead–Long Live Electric Cars
By
Paul Gipe
Environmentalists should insist that regulators force VW–willingly or unwillingly–to abandon the internal-combustion engine and switch to EVs now for our sake as well as for the future of VW. It’s the only way to clear the stench of VW’s fraud, while clearing the air that we breathe.
Back From the Dead: The Rise of EVs
By
Griffin Carpenter
Could communities soon be generating their own renewable energy, charging their cars and controlling home appliances remotely?
Roma–EV Charging in Rome
By
Paul Gipe
EVs are making rapid progress if you don’t have to search out charge stations in major cities around the world and instead just come across them in the urban fabric.
AutoBleue–Electric Vehicle Car Sharing in Nice, France
By
Paul Gipe
While Nancy and I were guided around Nice, France by our colleague and good friend Bernard Chabot last week, we stumbled across this Peugeot Electric Vehicle (EV) charging.
Electric Cars… of the 1890s and Early 1900s
By
Dick Eastman
What goes around comes around. Are you dreaming of purchasing a Tesla or some other all-electric automobile? Your great-great-grandfather might approve of your following in his footsteps.
VW kills the diesel engine, and opens path for electric vehicles
By
Giles Parkinson
As one analyst wrote: “For Volkswagen (and the auto industry), the dream of inexpensive clean diesel might be dead. Even if carmakers could deliver on VW’s false technological claims, the standard by which car companies can claim green status has shifted away from petrol-burning cars that use less fossil fuel—to an era of electric propulsion.”
