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A few automotive thoughts, if I may… Ford’s newest vehicle, to be on the market later this year, is the C-Max: Aside from the atrocious name — are they now measuring corporate success by the number of cheap shots people take at their product names? — this looks like a winner in the ye olde marketplace. Somewhat . . . → Read More: Driving the future Frito-Lay buying 100 more Smith Electric Vehicle trucks in 2012; natural gas coming for tractor fleet: PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division will purchase 100 Newton Series 2000 all-electric commercial vehicles in 2012 from Smith Electric Vehicles, bringing the total number of its electric fleet to more than 280. Over the past two years, 176 Smith Electric Vehicles . . . → Read More: Fleets and EVs This simple looking but extremely effective video won’t change any minds about EVs, but for those of us lusting for one, it definitely falls into the category of enviro-porn. The car I really want is a Scion iQ EV, but Toyota, like some other manufacturers, seems to be buying time and experience with very limited availability of . . . → Read More: Focus EV video One of the weird, little things that gives me hope about our situation is the freaky competitiveness of Americans. A good example is a site I just found out about, called Volt Stats! Tracking real world usage of Chevy Volts in the wild…. Essentially, it lets people feed data to the site about their Volt driving . . . → Read More: Volt Stats! Joe Romm has some quotes from Ken Caldeira about the paper he recently co-authored on natural gas, and they’re eye-popping, at least to anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, or worse, believes any of the ads about natural gas the energy companies are using to carpet bomb US airwaves: I see natural gas as a bridge fuel; . . . → Read More: The siren call of natural gas  7 comments - (Comments are closed)  Climate change, Electricity, Natural gas, Public policy, Transportation Sometimes I think the sole purpose of humanity is to fill the universe with stupid arguments. The latest phenomenon to bring that particularly absurd image to mind is the growing slap fight over the EU’s attempt to impose a carbon tax on all flights beginning or ending there. Countries Consider Retaliation for Europe’s Airline Emissions Fee: China, the United . . . → Read More: EU and the airline carbon tax Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #715: February 20, 2012 The Average Age of Light Vehicles Continues to Rise: The average age for cars and light trucks continues to rise as consumers hold onto their vehicles longer. Between 1995 and 2011, the average age for cars increased by 32% from 8.4 years to 11.1 years. For light trucks, the . . . → Read More: Age of US light vehicles Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #714: February 13, 2012 Light Truck Sales on the Rise: Can I have a show of hands? How many people saw this resurgence in light trucks coming as soon as the economy picked up even a little? If you didn’t raise your hand, then please sign up for the remedial class . . . → Read More: The truck empire strikes back Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #712: January 30, 2012 Top Vehicles in the U.S., 2011: See the page for the data. Do I really have to launch into the whole argument about how utterly absurd it is for Americans to be buying this mix of vehicles in 2011, or what that says about the astonishing level of RDS (reality . . . → Read More: Top selling vehicles in the US If you could wave your handy dandy magic wand and create a single technological breakthrough that would make a huge impact on our intertwined climate and energy challenges, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something better than a killer battery. Find a way to make a battery pack that greatly exceeds the range . . . → Read More: Yet another battery breakthrough |
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