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.
Deborah Petersen: My husband’s electric car, week 1
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Deborah Petersen
Want to know where to find charging stations, how to build one at home, where to apply for electric car rebates? I will be blogging about our car adventures at http://myhusbandselectriccar.wordpress.com. Come join us on the adventure. . .
Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman: 18 Month Service
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Ben Zuckerman
The LEAF is a car one “fills up” at home rather than at a gas station. A few days ago I took my LEAF (to Miller Nissan in the San Fernando Valley part of Los Angeles) for a standard 1.5 year service.
Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman: A Nissan LEAF EV After 18 Months
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Ben Zuckerman
I’m in Hawaii now but two weeks from now I’ll be taking the car in for its 1.5 year …
Chris Bagdikian’s Take on the Chevy Volt–I Love it
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Chris Bagdikian
For Paul Gipe, a casual acquaintance from years past, his first opinion of the Chevrolet Volt was that ugliness is skin deep – it looks like the Chevy Cruze, which he does not like. . .
George Shultz on energy & electric vehicles: It’s personal
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My solar panels have long since paid for themselves by the savings in electricity costs. I have my electric car running on electricity from the sun, which costs me nothing and there is plenty of it here. So, I’m driving on sunshine. Take that, Ahmadinejad! . . .
Electric Car Notes by Ben Zuckerman: A Nissan LEAF EV, one year on
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Ben Zuckerman
Our LEAF EV is now one year old. The standard one-year service visit cost us zero dollars; no oil change, no anything. Nissan suggests changing out a passenger cabin air filter after a year, but since we never use the air conditioner this was not done. . .
