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 Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman 04: Miles per kWh

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Ben Zuckerman

  In my first EV posting back in May, I guesstimated that when driven carefully a Nissan LEAF should be …

Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman 03: Spare Tire?

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Ben Zuckerman

  Should your LEAF have a flat tire, then getting somewhere to have the problem fixed may not be as …

Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman 02

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Ben Zuckerman

We have now had our Nissan LEAF EV for a month and things are going smoothly. Everyone we have taken …

Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman 01

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Ben Zuckerman

    Note: This is the first of a series of guest posts on electric vehicles–EVs. I’ve written about the …

One Million Megawatts of Wind Capacity for the USA: A Target Worthy of a Great Nation

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Paul Gipe

Portion of a presentation made January 10, 2008 to Al Gore’s Solutions Summit To significantly address the United State’s contribution …

Franzaltkriegumoel E 115841 Rs 14096 Jpg

Krieg um Öl oder Frieden durch die Sonne (War over Oil or Peace through the Sun)

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Paul Gipe

Yes, Franz Alt’s powerful little book is in German. And yes there’s perhaps only 100 million native German speakers in …