October, 2009

EV report neglects total cost and environmental savings

The Lux Research report published this month paints a less-than-rosy picture for the rate of adoption for electric cars. The Wall Street Journal’s Keith Johnson gives a comprehensive overview of the study in his October 7th story, “Speed Bump: Don’t Bank on Electric-Car Revolution, Lux Says.” The Lux report claims a much slower growth rate for [...] read more +

Waiting for “Perfection” Won’t jump-start the EV movement

The pessimists are at it again. Last week Reuters ran a story suggesting electric cars still have a long way to go before they’re the “perfect solution” to our country’s transportation-related pollution woes. Why wait for the perfect solution when a good solution with the room to grow into the perfect solution is already here? The Reuters [...] read more +

They Might Be Giants, might be geniuses

Double Grammy-winning nerd rock band, They Might Be Giants, is instilling the virtues of clean transportation in a generation that likely can’t even drive yet. With nearly 120,000 views on YouTube in two months, TMBG’s “Electric Car” music video, although a bit quirky, is an inspired creative proclamation about an optimistic future of zero emissions [...] read more +

First range anxiety, now charge anxiety?

There’s a lot of buzz following the Business of Plugging In conference in Detroit about mass adoption of electric cars and the impact it will have on the grid. On a panel, Chairman of Edison Electric Institute Anthony Earley said, “The beauty of electricity is it’s already there … So we’ve kind of got a jump-start” [...] read more +

Federal EV Tax Credit Must Be Changed

The electric vehicle community cheered when President Obama declared his goal of seeing one million plug-in vehicles for sale by 2015. It was reminiscent of President Bush’s support of hydrogen in 2003 and of ethanol in 2007, but with a different interest group celebrating. It’s a road we’ve traveled before, but this time we need [...] read more +