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.
Load Shifting With Electric Vehicles Is A Great Match To Wind In Many Areas
By
Clayton Handleman
EVs are poised to play an important dual role of both reducing carbon from transportation and enabling higher penetration of renewable energy. The pieces are falling into place for a disruptive change in electricity use and distribution to a carbon-free paradigm.
BlueIndy electric car-share service to debut Sept. 2
By
Justin L. Mack
BlueIndy officials announced Thursday that the stalled electric car-share service will open to the public early next month.
Delco-Remy’s DRIVE I Preceded GM’s EV1 to Same Fate
By
Paul Gipe
Fourteen years before General Motors (GM) introduced its EV1 and a quarter-century before it recalled and eventually destroyed nearly all of them, a GM division built an electric car only to see it suffer the same fate.
Bakersfield First Urban Public Charge Station Nearing Completion
By
Paul Gipe
Bakersfield’s first urban public charge stations are nearing completion. The four stations at Bakersfield Community College’s Weill Institute are located in downtown.
My unlucky electric car journey
By
Gavin Shoebridge
In this episode: the electric car gets a ‘major service’, I drive to Vienna in Austria, I learn that most charging system providers really suck, I almost run out of electricity, and I put on a suit to complain.
Good Neighbors Make Plugshare Work
By
Paul Gipe
We’ve been contacted by EV drivers a few times about charging at our home here in Bakersfield, but none have showed up. That is, until John Rowell from Exeter called.
