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Tag Archives: electric-cars
What Has the US EV Tax Credit Cost?
Last month the US EV tax credit expired completely for Tesla. I happened to get my Model 3 lease just under the wire, and actually saved something. The dealership was really busy in the credit’s last few days! The credit … Continue reading
GM Abandons Green Cars, And Blue Staters
I’ve been a pretty satisfied customer of the Chevy Volt for three years now. It’s a plug-in hybrid, meaning that it will go for about 50 miles on battery power and then switch over to a gas engine. It’s quiet, … Continue reading
Peak Gas Cars Are Already Past
Here’s an extraordinary thing – the peak sales of gasoline-powered cars in the US was in 2016: This includes straight passenger cars, SUVs, and pickups, which are all lumped together as Light Vehicles. The data comes from the Bureau of … Continue reading
Google Is Getting Creepy
Facebook has always been creepy, of course, with its reliance on selling your personality to advertisers. People are shocked, shocked, that this would be used for political ends by Cambridge Analytica and other manipulators, but that’s basic to what they … Continue reading
The Auto Industry Does Its Bit
I recently leased a 2017 Chevy Volt. It’s a nice mid-range car with good interior space, a lot of zip, and is really quiet. It’s even rather stylish: And it gets 75 miles per gallon in terms of CO2 emissions, … Continue reading
Solectria – Achieving Goals By Lowering Them
A few days ago some good news finally came to a guy who has been trying to save the world for a very long time. James Worden is the founder of the Massachusetts company Solectria Renewables, and it just got … Continue reading
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Why Did Car Companies Cave on CAFE?
Car companies have been complaining about fuel economy standards ever since they began back in the 1970s. All through the 80s, 90s and Zips they’ve managed to block increases in the standards, by spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about their … Continue reading
Boston Power becomes Beijing Power
Well here’s a depressing story – a local lithium-ion battery startup, Boston Power, has recently been bought out by Chinese investors and the Chinese government, and will be moving most of its R&D operations to Beijing. The American execs are … Continue reading
Auto Automobiles
The consistently interesting Brian Hayes has a column in the latest issue of American Scientist speculating on the consequences of true self-driving automobiles. He makes a number of valuable points: For liability reasons, they’ll only be present in large numbers … Continue reading
Electric Vans Already Win
Update 5/13/11 – Smith will soon start using A123 batteries. See bottom. I wrote here about how electric cars were just better pieces of machinery than gas-powered ones, since they were quieter, handled better, and were more reliable. This article, … Continue reading
A Niche in the Library of Babel 