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What do road traffic congestion and energy have in common? The answer is simple: considerable amounts of fuel are wasted in congestion. According to the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), 2.8 billion gallons of fuel were wast...
Posted Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 11:06 am | Filed in: Economics, Oil Dependence, Transportation
Seeing as Congress has now shut its doors for the summer without having produced the hoped-for energy bill, some have asked what can be done at the state and local levels to cut back on oil use. One effective answer is often overl...
Posted Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 1:58 pm | Filed in: Oil Dependence, Transportation
There is a considerable amount of confusion on whether electric vehicles (EVs) bring about environmental benefits in the form of lower CO2 emissions when compared to conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.
Who s...
Posted Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 1:24 pm | Filed in: Electricity, Electrification, Environment, Transportation
The deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) and the potential of “electromobility” are hot topics in political and economic arenas around the world. Major carmakers, including Daimler AG, Toyota Motor Corp, General Motors Corp...
Posted Thursday, July 29th, 2010 at 2:21 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Transportation
Central city decline, urban collapse, traffic congestion, air pollution and high oil demand are all problems linked to excessive dependence on automobiles. Many cities rely on transit to diminish such burdens, given the virtues of...
Posted Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 at 12:39 pm | Filed in: Oil Dependence, Transportation
Nikola Tesla, who broke new ground in electricity generation, unveiled his pioneer electric car – in 1931. In keeping with the name’s tradition, Tesla Motors is the first and currently only company to produce a commercially av...
Posted Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 at 12:59 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Transportation
In light of a recent Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing of testimony on a bill that would incentivize the mass deployment of electric vehicles across the country, it is interesting to assess the argument that...
Posted Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 10:35 am | Filed in: Electrification, Oil Dependence, Transportation
The modified Daihatsu Mira isn’t big, and it isn’t fast, but it did set a record for distance traveled on a single charge by an electric vehicle: just over 623 miles.
For their test drive last week, the Japanese team used a...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 at 6:39 am | Filed in: Electrification, Transportation
