The Lux Research report published this month paints a less-than-rosy picture for the rate of adoption for electric cars. The Wall Street Journal’s Keith Johnson gives a comprehensive overview of the study in his October 7th story, “Speed Bump: Don’t Bank on Electric-Car Revolution, Lux Says.” The Lux report claims a much slower growth rate for [...] read more + share +
The pessimists are at it again. Last week Reuters ran a story suggesting electric cars still have a long way to go before they’re the “perfect solution” to our country’s transportation-related pollution woes. Why wait for the perfect solution when a good solution with the room to grow into the perfect solution is already here? The Reuters [...] read more + share +
Double Grammy-winning nerd rock band, They Might Be Giants, is instilling the virtues of clean transportation in a generation that likely can’t even drive yet. With nearly 120,000 views on YouTube in two months, TMBG’s “Electric Car” music video, although a bit quirky, is an inspired creative proclamation about an optimistic future of zero emissions [...] read more + share +
There’s a lot of buzz following the Business of Plugging In conference in Detroit about mass adoption of electric cars and the impact it will have on the grid. On a panel, Chairman of Edison Electric Institute Anthony Earley said, “The beauty of electricity is it’s already there … So we’ve kind of got a jump-start” [...] read more + share +
With Chevy throwing out numbers like 230 MPG for the Volt and Nissan countering with 367 MPG for the Leaf, it’s no wonder that the discussion about how to measure electric vehicle fuel economy is heating up. Maybe Nissan and GM are still talking in MPG because that’s all they know, but the EPA and NHTSA [...] read more + share +