December 14th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
As a follow up to last week’s Five Friday Facts, here are the top 5 things you may not know about electric vehicles. The full list can be found on the Department of Energy’s website. The battery technologies in almost all of the electric vehicles on the road today were created with support from the [...]
December 13th, 2012 Chris DeArmond 
It may come as a surprise, but automakers are actually the ones who produce the all-important fuel economy figures displayed on window stickers. The reason the numbers are “EPA-certified” is because they are calculated using standardized methodology developed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Essentially, vehicles are hooked up to a dynamometer and run through a standardized driving [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Transportation 
Tags: Cars, Chris DeArmond, EPA, Ford, Hybrids 
No Comments » December 11th, 2012 The Angry Pedestrian 
As a “head’s up” I’m done. Next week will be my last post. Check it out to learn why. I’ve had several posts brewing since I started this endeavor. In fact, I’m throwing everything that’s left (save the big finale) at you now. Here are all of the unfinished posts I had in the chamber [...]
December 7th, 2012 Eric Wilson Seeing as how today’s Five Friday Facts come from a top 10 list about electric vehicles, this will be “Part 1” of a two part Five Friday Facts. Counting down from #10 through #6, with the top 5 next week, here are this week’s facts: The average American’s daily round-trip commute is less than 30 [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Transportation Tags: Cars, Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrid No Comments » December 2nd, 2012 Eric Wilson 
If you’re a long time follower of the site or have visited our about page, you may know that Justin, Stephen Wade, and I attended Emory University down in Atlanta. When I was a sophomore I made what I thought was a prudent choice to buy a Honda Accord (which 14 years and 156,000 miles [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Transportation Tags: Bike Sharing, Emory No Comments » November 22nd, 2012 Max Caughron Last week I wrote a post asking if the kotatsu could ever make it in the US. This week we look at Lyft, a company inspired by the Angkot transportation system in Indonesia. In most developing and urbanizing countries residents have to get around chaotic cities without the luxury and comfort of the private car, [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Transportation, Uncategorized Tags: angkot, Lyft, Max Caughron, public car, taxi No Comments » November 19th, 2012 Sean Connell In a previous post I discussed a Mansfield Foundation-organized workshop I participated in at which U.S. and Japanese transportation managers and experts explored ways to bring to market integrated vehicle technologies to reduce the transportation sector’s climate impact. My earlier post noted the appropriateness of holding such a dialogue in Seattle, a city where environmental [...]
November 15th, 2012 Sean Connell In October I had the chance to participate in a workshop in Seattle held as part of an ongoing dialogue series, organized by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and supported by Toyota Motor North America, aimed at encouraging joint U.S.-Japan activities in integrating vehicle technologies that reduce the climate impact of the transportation sector. [...]
November 13th, 2012 Eric Wilson 
As further evidence of the rise of electric vehicles, Tesla’s Model S Sedan was named Motor Trend’s 2013 Car of the Year. The plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt won the title in 2011, completing the evolution of electrified transport (The Toyota Prius, a gasoline-electric hybrid, won in 2004). With a sticker price nearing $60,000 (not including [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Transportation Tags: Chevy Volt, Electric Vehicles, Prius, Tesla Motors No Comments » November 12th, 2012 The Angry Pedestrian 
This isn’t the first time I’ve borrowed liberally from a deceased author. So, Mr. Orwell, please forgive my transgressions. You may have written “four legs good, two legs bad” but we’re in a different era now. To the masses I say “Two legs good, four WHEELS bad.” My vitriol is nothing new to readers of [...]
