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.
Buying an Electric Vehicle Mail Order: Or Why we bought our Leaf from Petaluma and Not Bakersfield
By
Paul Gipe
Ok, it wasn’t quite mail order. Most of the transaction was done over the phone and via email, but we bought a car, an Electric Vehicle (EV), in a very untraditional manner.
Trip to Bird Springs Road in a Nissan Leaf
By
Paul Gipe
We’ve been driving our 2015 Nissan Leaf for two months now and it was time to take it on a road trip—a short one, mind you, but one long enough to test our range anxiety. We set out Monday morning to visit friends on Bird Springs Road, in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Bakersfield. Of course that doesn’t tell one much about the route or the location.
Electric Vehicle Charging Stations or EVSEs
By
Paul Gipe
Electric Vehicles (EVs) are different from the cars we’re accustomed to. They use electricity stored in the traction batteries to power the vehicle. They don’t use gasoline or diesel fuel. As a consequence, true EVs–those vehicles that rely solely on batteries without “range extenders”–can’t use the existing network of gasoline stations and gasoline pumps to “refuel”.
The BMW i3 (a personal impression)
By
Bob Jans
Bob’s a techy and a serious car guy. He knows cars and likes to drive them fast–very fast.
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 …
