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Companies such as GM and Honda, as well as prominent venture capitalists, are broadening their scopes, and looking to startups for innovative technologies in transportation. Plus, new considerations for fuel-economy standards ar...
Posted Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 at 10:49 am | Filed in: Automotive, Transportation
Hardly a day passes without references in the news to better vehicle fuel economy or improved operating efficiency generally. Today, the Associated Press reported that gasoline demand fell for the fifth week in a row. They not...
Posted Monday, April 11th, 2011 at 6:16 am | Filed in: Automotive, Oil, Transportation
We recently came across an interesting question regarding parking spaces for grid-enabled vehicles (GEVs). Should the earliest parking spots for GEVs have to be handicapped accessible?
Guidelines for parking lots generally requ...
Posted Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 at 2:22 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification
Sometimes we undermine our own goals and objectives by making things seem much more complicated than they really are.
Take for instance, home charging for grid-enabled vehicles (GEVs). If you follow the news about GEVs, you may...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 at 11:04 am | Filed in: Automotive, Electricity, Electrification
This past Monday, automakers and engine manufacturers sued EPA regarding its recent decision to increase the amount of ethanol that may be blended into gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent. This limit, commonly referred to as ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 8:41 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Automotive
While we have all been paying attention to the first deliveries of the Nissan Leaf, which happened last weekend, we have largely overlooked the first deliveries of THINK electric cars. The cars, largely manufactured in Europe, a...
Posted Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 at 10:31 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electricity
Chevrolet announced earlier this week that EPA has approved its calculations for the Volt’s fuel economy. According to the calculations, the Volt will get 60 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe), making it the second most effici...
Posted Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 at 10:09 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Automotive, Electricity
Earlier this week, it was reported that EPA, which approves the fuel economy stickers that go in the window of every new car, has concluded that the Nissan Leaf has a range of 73 miles. The Federal Trade Commission, which is requ...
Posted Saturday, November 27th, 2010 at 3:16 am | Filed in: Automotive, Electricity, Transportation
As we get closer to the arrival of the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf on the showroom floor, we wanted to take a quick look at one of the pieces of information that may be on new fuel economy labels for electric and plug-in hybrid...
Posted Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 at 10:56 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electricity
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today approved by a 19-4 vote Senate Bill 3495, the Promoting Electric Vehicles Act of 2010, designed to advance the wide-scale deployment of electric vehicles and infrastructure n...
Posted Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 at 10:49 am | Filed in: Automotive, Electricity, Electrification, Oil Dependence, Policy
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