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.
Plug Share
By
John Loveless
The members of the PlugShare community are an amazing group of people. Since the future charging infrastructure is not coming soon enough, (especially in oil-junkie, fossil-fuel hooked Utah), PlugShare members willingly offer their electricity (often solar powered) to strangers that need to charge up their electric vehicles. . . I wanted to be part of such an amazing organization too, so I joined PlugShare and opened our guest charging station up for anyone to use 24-7.
Why We Went Electric
By
Paul Gipe
We’d been planning to buy a plug-in hybrid for some time. Just seemed to make so much sense on so …
Why We Chose a Nissan Leaf for Our EV
By
Paul Gipe
It was fairly simple really. Tesla was out. Too much money. At more than 100,000 the Tesla is well out …
Ollie’s Electric Car Pledge and Our Move to an EV
By
Paul Gipe
It worked. Ollie Danner’s Electric Car Pledge and his organizational skills are the reason we’re now driving an EV or …
US Air Force Unveils World’s Largest Electric Vehicle-to-Grid Fleet
By
Elisa Wood
The Los Angeles Air Force Base in California (LAAFB) has acquired 42 plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs), the most the military has ever assembled in one place. The cars, trucks, vans and a bus will be able to supply 700 kW, enough to power 140 typical American homes on a hot summer afternoon.
The Economic Impact of Electric Vehicle Adoption in Ontario
By
Brent Kopperson
Not only do Electric Vehicles provide many environmental, health, energy, and cost saving advantages… EVs also have the potential to provide many economic, technological, and labour market gains in their production, operation, and construction of supporting infrastructure.
