By Stan Cox, Priti Gulati Cox, Tom Dispatch
The true burden of a massive battery in an electric car or truck will be borne not just by the vehicle’s suspension system, but by the people and ecosystems unlucky enough to be in or near the global supply chain that will produce it.
By Roger Blanchard, Resilience.org
Environmentalists like to say that oil can be easily replaced with electric and fuel cell vehicles in the transportation sector. But how realistic is that assertion?
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
The electrification of the transportation sector is not just about the environment. It is about the global competitiveness of US industry. To compete abroad requires the ability and capacity to compete domestically.
By Bart Anderson, Resilence.org
Bolivia and Climate Change’s Great Lithium Problem / Apple co-founder: ‘I've really given up' on self-driving cars / Regenerative businesses in a degenerative economic system?
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The rapid uptake of electric buses is occurring in cities around the world, with Bloomberg predicting that by 2030, 84% of global municipal bus sales will be electric.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Recently, word leaked out that Norway may ban the sale of diesel- and gasoline-powered vehicles by 2025. The move toward electric vehicles is part of a dream shared by those concerned about climate change and about fossil fuel depletion (especially oil depletion), namely, turn the world into one big all-electric paradise. Run everything we can on electricity.
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
A little over two years ago, my wife and I entered a new phase of life in two respects: we got three chickens, and we got a plug-in hybrid vehicle.