April 18th, 2013 
Chris DeArmond 
The 2014 Vehicle Technologies budget proposal, submitted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), requests $240 million to support R&D efforts for batteries and electric drive technology. The allotment is a $30 million jump over the amount requested for fiscal year 2013, and hopefully will build on the program’s string of notable [...]
April 2nd, 2013 Justin Manger 
Luxury electric-car maker Tesla Motors reported a profit for the first quarter of 2013, the first profitable quarter since the maker of $70,000 EVs went public in 2010. Shares of the car company were up at much as 22% after the announcement. With a backlog of 15,000 vehicles, Tesla said that it delivered more than [...]
Posted in Business, Justin Manger, Transportation 
Tags: Cars, Electric Vehicles, Green Technology, Tesla Motors 
No Comments » February 28th, 2013 Chris DeArmond 
In his 12th and final State of the City address, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for a major expansion of the city’s electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. Specifically, he said he would “work with City Council to amend the Building code so that up to 20 percent of all new public parking spaces [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Clean Technology, Policy, Transportation Tags: Chris DeArmond, Electric Vehicles, Green Technology, Plug-in Hybrid No Comments » February 24th, 2013 Eric Wilson 
Recent life changes have led to my wife and me filling up the tank to our car 5-6 times a month, up from probably 3 previously. We no longer live across the street from her work and now drive to her work and our children’s day care, where I usually catch the bus. As we [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Transportation Tags: Bus, Cars, Electric Vehicles, Oil, Oil Consumption, Peak Oil, Walking No Comments » February 21st, 2013 Chris DeArmond 
As many of you are probably aware, Tesla Motors and New York Times writer John Broder have been engaged in a heated public battle over the credibility of his damaging review of the Tesla Model S. Broder’s trip up the east coast started out well enough, but eventually left him stranded in Branford, Conn., forcing [...]
February 5th, 2013 Nick Grue The recent purchase of the American company A123 systems by the Chinese company Wanxiang Group is another failure of US policy to make electric and hybrid cars attractive to Americans. A123 was recently in the news because the company filed for bankruptcy as a result of weaker-than-expected sales of electric and hybrid vehicle batteries, even [...]
January 11th, 2013 Justin Manger 
After a year and a half of building on a shaky linguistic base, my Japanese has progressed enough to be able to read the newspaper (thank you ICI). It’s still slow going but reading a newspaper in a foreign language is a great complement to other news sources and brings a nice cultural perspective while [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Green Products, Japan, Justin Manger, News, Transportation Tags: Battery, Cars, Electric Vehicles, Green Technology No Comments » January 10th, 2013 Chris DeArmond 
Between federal tax credits, exemption from vehicle excise taxes, HOV lane use, and free parking, hybrids and electric vehicles (EVs) have enjoyed some pretty awesome perks. However, as Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and other cities begin to shelve existing bonuses, consumers are slowly accepting that the glory days are coming to an end.
Posted in 2nd Green, Clean Technology, News, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Chris DeArmond, Electric Vehicles, Environment, Plug-in Hybrid No Comments » 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 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 »
