Over the past couple of decades, California has earned a reputation for passing its own environmental standards that are often much more rigorous than those set by the federal government. Following this trend, California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) released a tougher vehicle emissions program for vehicle model years (MY) 2015 through 2025. The Advanced Clean [...]
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California Strengthens Vehicle Emission Standards
February 2nd, 2012 
Chris DeArmond 
Posted in Energy Efficiency, News, Policy, Transportation 
Tags: California, Carbon Dioxide, Cars, Chris DeArmond, Climate Change, Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrid, Pollution 
No Comments »Automakers Unveil Electric Vehicles at Detroit Auto Show
January 13th, 2012 Chris DeArmond Despite the fact that hybrid and electric vehicles accounted for less than 3 percent of cars sold in 2011, they dominated this week’s Detroit Auto Show for the second year in a row. While several hybrid/electric vehicles revealed at the show were concept cars—for example, the hybrid Lexus LFLC sports coupe and the iconic Acura NSX [...]
Electric Cars – A Practical Man’s Epiphany
September 28th, 2011 Guest Author The green movement was a nonstarter for me. The generation gap was never more evident than at my house. While my son studies green technologies at school, I prefer collared greens and the Green Bay Packers. I’m a practical man. Father and son relationships are a strange thing. On a perfect summer afternoon, we sat [...]
Posted in Behavior, Guest Authors, Transportation Tags: Alternative Energy, California, Electric Vehicles, Ford, Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrid, Tax Rebates No Comments »Toyota’s Prius Goes Plural
September 20th, 2011 Eric Wilson Back in January we wrote about the expansion of the Prius line and more recently about their imminent arrival in the US. Billboards and commercials (albeit slightly strange ones like the video below) have begun airing this past week with the tagline “The Prius Goes Plural.” In addition to this tagline/motto, the new Prius line [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Transportation Tags: Cars, Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrid, Prius, Video No Comments »Can Auto Manufacturers reach 54.5 MPG by 2025?
August 10th, 2011 Chris DeArmond On July 29, the Obama administration proposed a plan that would require automakers to reach a fleet-wide average of 54.5 miles per gallon (MPG) by 2025 under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. The new rules roughly double the current requirement for passenger cars (27.5 MPG), and will start to go into effect in [...]
Slowly, but Surely Electric Vehicles Hit the Roads
August 6th, 2011 Eric Wilson Last fall I saw three electric cars in one week. It turned out to be quite the cluster (and aberration), because it had been nearly a year until I saw the next one. The other day while leaving Canopy Aiport Parking at Denver International Airport, there was a Chevy Volt plugged into one of the [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Chevy Volt, Denver, Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrid No Comments »BMW’s i3 Concept Car: A Major Step Toward Sustainable Vehicles
August 2nd, 2011 Eric Wilson The talk of electric cars that seems to be proliferating in the media represents a nice advancement toward sustainable transportation, but they have a long way to go given the use of non-renewable materials. Electric vehicles recently occupied all three spots under the New York Times “Automobiles” section on their website, a sign that times [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Better Place, Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrid No Comments »Toyota’s Expanded Prius Line to Make US Debut This Fall
July 20th, 2011 Eric Wilson The Prius v, a larger version of the “traditional” Prius that has become borderline ubiquitous in many parts of the country, will go on sale across the United States this fall. It represents the first of the expanded Prius line to come to market. In addition, the plug-in Prius, oft discussed (including on 2nd Green [...]
Posted in Business, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Japan, News, Transportation Tags: California, Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrid, Prius No Comments »
