Are Electric Cars the Solution?
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
What we really need to do is seriously imagine a society with fewer vehicles and drivers — human-scaled technology.
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Your gas tank is not an oil well. Your battery will not be a power plant.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
But if we’re ready for a serious response to the climate emergency, we should be rapidly curtailing both the manufacture and use of cars, and making the remaining vehicles only as big and heavy as they actually need to be.
Activists Occupy Site of Proposed Lithium Mine in Nevada
By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Macska Moksha Press
Thacker Pass is the site of a proposed lithium mine that would impact nearly 5700 acres—close to nine square miles—and which would include a giant open pit mine over two square miles in size, a sulfuric acid processing plant, and piles of tailings.
False Solutions to Climate Change: Transportation
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?
Electric Car Numbers, and Projections to 2030
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.
Electric Cars to the Rescue?
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.
M. King Hubbert: The Limits To Oil
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.
The Outlook for Electric Vehicles
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.
We Need to Electrify As Much Transportation As We Can
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.
6 predictions for 2016
By Griffin Carpenter, New Economics Foundation
Forecasting is a dangerous business, but here are six predictions you should keep an eye on.
Back From the Dead: The Rise of EVs
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.
US Crude Oil Consumption Peaked a Decade Ago
By Deborah Lawrence, Energy Policy Forum
Electric vehicles (EVs) are already cheaper to run than internal combustion engine (ICE) automobiles.