PHEBs: Plugging in that School Bus for an Energy Smart Future
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles. They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a...
View ArticleHybrid Chinese Style?
Just a few days ago, the first domestically developed and produced Chinese hybrid vehicle rolled off the assembly line. “It took us 6 years to develop this hybrid and it marks the beginning of mass...
View ArticleEnergy COOL: An affordable PHEV? Available soon?
AFS Trinity, a leading company in flywheel and other power storage systems, has just announced a 150 mile per gallon plug-in-hybrid variant of a Saturn VUE. “Extreme Hybrids™ don’t need high priced...
View ArticleNewsweek thinks Lutz is no Putz …
Newsweek magazine has published a hagiography of GM Vice Chair Bob Lutz. This one-pager, Bob Lutz: The Man Who Revived the Electric Car, focusing on his role in resuscitating the electric car after...
View ArticleCtB vs CtO: Why greening taxis?
A brief discussion about the economic imperatives for greening the nation’s taxi fleets. But, first, acronym definition: CtB: Cost to Buy: acquisition price, how much to purchase something CtO: Cost to...
View ArticlePlugging in for a better tomorrow: the school bus ‘solution’
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles. They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a...
View ArticleObama Admin Plugging In School Buses
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles. They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a...
View ArticleWill Will’s deceptions ever be fact-checked by WashPost?
The Washington Post opinion page editor, Fred Hiatt, has made strong statements about the strength and quality of fact-checking for the columnists within his pages. told by editorial page editor Fred...
View ArticleCAP’s American Fuel: Contaminated on so many levels
Two weeks ago, the Center for American Progress issued American Fuel: Developing Natural Gas for Heavy Vehicles. This misleading and error-prone report strongly supports misguided policy concepts to...
View ArticleDispelling Electric-Vehicle Myths, #5 (and last): Technology Aspects
In a series of guest posts, Assaf addresses — from the perspective both of an EV owner and an analyst — myths about electric vehicles. The first post addressed the life-cycle CO2 Footprint of various...
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