How to promote electric vehicle charging states in urban areas

Everyone is promoting electric vehicles and sales are climbing. Yet, the infrastructure is still not there to make major inroads. Jerome Mayaud, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia writes about how growing cities can do more to promote at-home EV charging. What are your views? How growing cities can support at-home electric … Continue reading How to promote electric vehicle charging states in urban areas →

Big brother monitors electric cars in China

In cities, CCTV cameras are everywhere and we increasingly feel that authorities are watching our every step. Is it any surprise this should happen when we are in our cars? Now, Andrew Griffin writes in The Independent that authorities in China are now watching drivers of electric cars all the time, claiming that the information … Continue reading Big brother monitors electric cars in China →

Comparing electric and hydrogen vehicles

It is encouraging to see the developments underway in our low-carbon energy transition. This is definitely true for transport. Jake Whitehead, Robin Smit and Simon Washington from the University of Queensland discuss the relative strengths of electric and hydrogen vehicles in an article on The Conversation website. What are your views? Why battery-powered vehicles … Continue reading Comparing electric and hydrogen vehicles →

EEA report confirms: electric cars are better for climate and air quality

Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report, published recently. Promoting renewable energy and circular economy — including the shared use of vehicles and product design that supports reuse and recycling — will help maximise … Continue reading EEA report confirms: electric cars are better for climate and air quality →

“Antique” smart meters in UK will slow down roll out of electric vehicles

The roll out of smart meters in the UK has been complicated, slow and expensive (about 14 billion euros at last estimate). But the old generation of smart meters is an obsolete technology with limited functions. For the most part they do not even allow switching providers, further complicating the market. Andrew Warren of the … Continue reading “Antique” smart meters in UK will slow down roll out of electric vehicles →

Australia Post shows way forward with electric delivery vehicles

The energy transition is definitely making progress when mail delivery goes electric. Sophie Vorrath writes on the RenewEconomy website about developments in Australia. If you have seen such developments in your country, please let us know. E-mail: Three-wheeling posties herald electric future Australia Post is making a slow, but steady shift to electric delivery … Continue reading Australia Post shows way forward with electric delivery vehicles →

India’s energy transition well underway

Regularly we are reading about the joint venture, Energy Efficiency Services (EESL). Often it concerns LEDs but it is obvious they do just about everything related to energy efficiency. Dhirendra Tripathi writes on the Moneycontrol website about an interview with EESL MD Sauragh Kumar. He said EESL would wait for the department of heavy industry … Continue reading India’s energy transition well underway →

Advance of e-buses will outpace even electric cars

The electrification of road transport will move into top gear in the second half of the 2020s, thanks to tumbling battery costs and larger-scale manufacturing, with sales of electric cars racing to 28 percent, and those of electric buses to 84 percent, of their respective global markets by 2030. Renewable Energy Magazine provides a news … Continue reading Advance of e-buses will outpace even electric cars →

Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! Sounding out electric vehicles

We definitely don’t need a bell ringer walking in front of every electric vehicle, but we do need to hear them coming (well, for us who are not wearing noise-cancelling headphones as we walk). James Doward writes in The Guardian that from next summer, all new electric vehicles will be required to have sound emitters … Continue reading Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! Sounding out electric vehicles →

Encouraging developments in Sweden to promote electric vehicles

Zachary Shahan writes on the CleanTechnica website about recent policy changes in Sweden that will encourage more electric vehicles. New Swedish Car Policies Expected To Boost Electric Car Market Share In Sweden The Swedish government has just proposed a new taxation scheme on light vehicles to go into place on the first of July, … Continue reading Encouraging developments in Sweden to promote electric vehicles →