By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
In the US, transportation is said to be the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. The most common solution put forth is a false one: “we’ll electrify all our cars, maybe our trucks too.” Planes and ships are usually not proposed for replacement by electric versions, but trains are. So what’s wrong with this idea?
By Darrin Qualman, Darrin Qualman blog
Electric cars are not a panacea, but they do represent an important transition technology; electrifying much of the global car fleet can buy us the time we need to build zero-emission train and transit systems.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
A lot of hope is riding on the wheels of the world’s three million electric cars. So, how’s the EV revolution going? And even if it’s going well, is it really the best strategy? Those are the questions I want to address here.
By Chris Martenson, Mason Inman, Peak Prosperity
Chris talks with Mason Inman about his new book The Oracle Of Oil, the first in-depth biography of M. King Hubbert, to learn more about the genesis of the Peak Oil theory.
By Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show
Electric vehicles are all the rage right now, and hopes are high that we might finally be able to transition off of oil and on to electric cars…preferably, cars powered by clean renewable electricity and not by coal-fired grid power.
By Richard Heinberg, The Real News Network
A truly green transportation system probably wouldn't rely on electric cars that much because it wouldn't be relying on cars that much.
By Griffin Carpenter, New Economics Foundation
Forecasting is a dangerous business, but here are six predictions you should keep an eye on.
By Griffin Carpenter, New Economics Foundation
A decade ago electric cars were a lost cause. The popular 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, highlighted the role of carmakers, oil companies and politics to explain why a technology with a lot of promise never caught on.
By Deborah Lawrence, Energy Policy Forum
Electric vehicles (EVs) are already cheaper to run than internal combustion engine (ICE) automobiles.
By Guy Dauncey, BC Sustainable Energy Association
Is it possible that we could get where we want to be and ship our goods where they need to go without any use of fossil fuels?
By Paul Gilding, Cockatoo Chronicles
Renewables and associated storage, transport and digital technologies are so rapidly disrupting whole industries’ business models they are pushing the fossil fuel industry towards inevitable collapse.
By Tara Lohan, Alternet
Renewable energy sources like wind and solar have made big leaps in the last few years, with installation prices falling and demand increasing. But we’re still miles away from where we need to be.