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.
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.”
Why the days of gas-powered cars are numbered
By
Peter Cheney
The trashcan of history is filled with machines that once seemed as if they would last forever. Remember the typewriter? The rotary-dial telephone? Cameras that used film?
The Volkswagen scandal: say goodbye to the internal combustion engine!
By
Ugo Bardi
But, if it is true that we cannot win against thermodynamics, it is also true that we don’t need to fight against it. A battle against the combustion engine was lost in the 1970s, but the war can still be won: the electric car is making a spectacular return.
EVs Could Cut Global Gasoline Use By 2040
By
Mike Barnard
A tipping point has been reached in the last two years for electric cars. Almost half of all fully or partially electric vehicles sold in the past decade were sold in 2014. In addition to the standard-bearing Tesla, every car manufacturer in the world has fully or partially electric cars in their lineups. The most exciting cars in the world are now electric.
Planned CHAdeMO DC Fast Chargers in Southern San Joaquin Valley
By
Paul Gipe
The California Energy Commission (CEC) issued a document July 27, 2015 that called for proposals to complete California’s portion of the West Coast Electric Highway.
