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This week, ten New England and Mid-Atlantic States announced the formation of a regional network to promote electric vehicles (EVs). The Northeast Electric Vehicle Network aims to enhance plug-in infrastructure in order to exped...
Posted Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 11:06 am | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
Buried and juxtaposed in the World Watch section of today's WSJ down on page A13 are two articles that neatly capture the current climate conundrum. The first, titled "Increasing Use of Coal Prompts IEA Warning" warns:
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Posted Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 9:33 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Environment, Oil Dependence, Renewables
Even though the US is awash in cheap natural gas,and flat global demand is depressing oil price futures, the picture for clean energy alternatives brightened considerably this year, according to a new report by Bloomberg New Ener...
Posted Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 7:53 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification
The costs and benefits of car ownership are difficult to weigh for many urban dwellers. Insurance, maintenance, increasingly high fuel prices, and the price of the vehicle itself are sometimes prohibitively expensive for the inf...
Posted Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 at 12:53 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
The Department of Energy (DOE) published a report this week calling U.S. reliance on oil “the greatest immediate threat to U.S. economic and national security” and recommended the federal government prioritize its resources to...
Posted Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 at 2:15 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Energy Security
After massive blackouts eschewed following the earthquake in Japan, Toyota’s plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) began running in reverse, supplying electricity to disaster-hit zones across the northeast. Just like we can charge PH...
Posted Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 at 2:01 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification
At a time when the international community is fixed on the implications of the U.S. debt crisis, the government is under heavy scrutiny regarding any new spending.
On the other hand, large corporations are beginning to step up,...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 at 2:20 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
Back in the day when there was bipartisanship, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the Congress enacted, and President George W. Bush signed into law, the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Before "all of the above" became a mantra, ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th, 2011 at 6:41 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence
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