Transportation

The Greenest Car/shutterstock

Just two days ago I was praising Ford for its plugin electric vehicle options. Well, those clean vehicles aren’t the only things that are cleaner around Ford headquarters and factories these days.[read more]

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Far from high-tech Silicon Valley or hipster Austin, Texas, the largest all-electric car-sharing service is being built. If you guessed Portland or Brooklyn, keep guessing…and moving inland.[read more]

Natural Gas/shuttertock

If you read the business section of a major U.S. newspaper with any regularity, chances are you’ve seen something about the potential for the shale gas boom to transform the transportation sector. Much of this excitement is derived from the fact that natural gas currently enjoys a three-fold advantage over traditional petroleum fuels.[read more]

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May 2013 was a terrible month for electric vehicles, wasn’t it? Well, no, in fact, it wasn’t. Monthly automotive sales data painted a picture that should cause many electrification skeptics to rethink their assumptions.[read more]

a new interstate?

According to the Energy Information Administration, transportation (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, etc.) accounts for about 2/3 of the oil used in the United States. The Hydrogen Highway would supplant this usage.[read more]

carbon nanotubes

Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have discovered a pathway for developing low cost electric vehicle batteries, which could lead to a new generation of affordable EVs.[read more]

EV emissions

It’s time to bust this thing wide open. "Electric cars aren’t green" is a great bit of counter-intuitive headline bait, but it’s bad maths.[read more]

light truck cleantech?

 

An innovative retrofit for medium-duty trucks (such as delivery trucks and garbage trucks) could improve fuel efficiency and reduce smog and particle emissions by 90 percent.[read more]

cleantech setbacks/shutterstock

Neither the failure of Better Place, which might yet find a bargain-hunting savior, nor the retreat of DESERTEC looks like a mortal blow to the long energy transition now underway.[read more]

Better Place Charging Station/Wikimedia Commons

Twenty years from now, when it is likely that electric drive will be a far more ubiquitous technology than it is today, we will look back on Better Place and other early failures as the natural price that had to be paid for innovation.[read more]

charging infrastructure

Electric cars are one of the key pieces of the renewable energy economy of the future, but so far, there hasn’t been much investigation into how smart grid technology could help with electric car charging infrastructure.[read more]

Tesla

 

Tesla is the hottest hottest name in the EV, no scratch that, entire auto market. But it's important to take a step back and note that, Tesla did not make a profit from it's core business, its Model S electric sports-sedan.[read more]

Mexican solar energy

Ford has signed an agreement to consume 15 percent of the electricity produced by Sonora80M Group’s 20 MW solar park, which is anticipated to get up to 80 MW after all four phases are complete.[read more]

the new poor?

Now that a greater portion of the poor are living in suburbs, communities that exist thanks to the invention of the automobile, they are likely to be even more vulnerable to the “regressive tax” that is high gas prices.[read more]

EPA regulations/shutterstock

The EPA’s new Tier 3 standards will significantly reduce gasoline sulfur content and associated vehicle tailpipe emissions. But has the EPA developed their Tier 3 standards in the most efficient and cost-effective manner?[read more]