Category: ‘ Electrification ’

 

Increasing Supportive Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

In Europe, private and non-profit organizations are taking opportunities to support electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure into their own hands. Large UK utility companies are developing competitive products for electric vehicle cha...

Wouldn’t it be nice — what energy security means

Today's Wall Street Journal has a interesting piece by Angus McDowall that points up the challenges facing Saudi Arabia as it navigates through the geopolitcs of oil and seeks to maintain economic health.  As opposed to US , Chin...

The critical path on energy

This morning Jeffrey Ball has a good piece in the WSJ that should be grounds for hope on the critical path item on US energy security.  We've written in the past about the criticality of natural gas to future US electricity price...

Political Roundup

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have continued to charge ahead on energy issues this week, with the passage of two more domestic production bills in the House and the introduction of electric vehicle legislation in the Senate. As par...

Political Roundup

After a two-week congressional recess—plenty of time to hear from constituents about high gas prices and pain at the pump—Members of Congress have hit the road running on energy issues this week. Yesterday the House passed ...

Preparing the Grid for Electric Vehicles

Recently, there have been several articles written about the future outlook for grid-enabled vehicles, their impact the electric grid, and how utilities must begin preparing for the additional demand.  One report, released by the...

Barking up the wrong tree

Today, with gas prices climbing and turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East showing no signs of abatement, policy makers should be focused like a laser beam on energy security, oil and gasoline prices, domestic production, etc...

President Obama announces Clean Fleets Partnership

On Friday, President Obama announced efforts to reduce petroleum consumption in trucks and other fleet vehicles.  The White House released another fact sheet linking this initiative with the President’s speech earlier last week...

Oil Dependence Cost Dwarfs Cost of Promoting EV Adoption

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had an opinion piece about the value of subsidies for electric vehicles, with several supporting arguments that deserve a more in-depth look. First, the author claims that EVs “have been with...

Why moving beyond oil is so difficult

Over seventy percent of U.S. oil consumption is attributable to the transportation sector.  Any effective solution to U.S. oil dependence is going to (in fact must) arise in this sector.  Many options exist, from simply improvin...
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