Electric Vehicles May Never Reach Their Full Potential Without a Clear Focus on Infrastructure While low gas prices have created a challenging environment for electric vehicles, year-over-year increases across nearly two dozen different EV models in all major metropolitan areas of the U.S. illustrate an obvious growth in electric consumption. But it raises a pressing … Continue reading Electric Vehicles May Never Reach Their Full Potential Without a Clear Focus on Infrastructure→
Solar power and electric vehicles to overtake fossil fuels by 2050 The future looks bleak for the fossil fuel industry, according to a report recently released by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, which was working with the Graham Institute at Imperial College London. Despite predictions by BP, ExxonMobil, and other gas and oil magnates that fossil … Continue reading Solar power and electric vehicles to overtake #fossil_fuels by 2050→
Big energy hugely underestimates electric cars, renewable power Mass adoption of electric cars and renewable energy could significantly decrease global consumption of fossil fuels. But does the established energy industry view these new developments as a threat? In a recent report, ExxonMobil said coal could continue to provide the majority of the world’s electricity-generation capacity … Continue reading Big energy hugely underestimates electric cars, renewable power→
In America’s Heartland, A Power Company Leads Charge For Electric Cars In the world of electric cars, there’s a chicken-and-egg problem: More people might buy electric vehicles, or EVs, if they were confident there would always be a charger nearby. And businesses might install more chargers if there were more EVs on the road. Now, … Continue reading In America’s Heartland, A Power Company Leads Charge For Electric Cars→
California Utilities Want To Charge Your Electric Car, Boost Stagnant Power Demand Electric utilities have an existential problem. The demand for electricity is not growing like it used to, dampening the need for new power plants, power lines and other infrastructure that drive their profits. “From the early 1900s, the utility growth model was built … Continue reading California Utilities Want To Charge Your Electric Car, Boost Stagnant Power Demand→
How California utility regulators are turning electric vehicles into grid resources Nw numbers show California’s peak demand will stress its grid more than previously thought, and in response policymakers are pushing ahead with an unexpected solution: electric vehicles. In 2015, California’s grid needed as much as 10,091 MW of quick-responding resources to meet a three-hour … Continue reading How California utility regulators are turning electric vehicles into grid resources→
Utility Warms Up to Electric Vehicles Duke Energy shows interest in buying trucks from relative newcomer Workhorse Group Electric utilities have obvious reasons to support the adoption of electric vehicles, but they have been slow to electrify their own truck fleets. That may be starting to change. This week, Duke Energy Corp., one of the … Continue reading Utility Warms Up to Electric Vehicles→
Electric cars to give solar industry a lift The sun could join the ranks of top commodities such as oil and gas in less than 10 years as it changes the landscape of energy, even becoming the lone source of power generation in some places. When oil was first discovered, no one predicted it would … Continue reading Electric cars to give solar industry a lift→
New EV charging station at BCIT powered by the sun While the BC Institute of Technology (BCIT) was showing off its new solar-powered electric vehicle charging station September 14, BC Hydro obliged in the demonstration with an unexpected power outage at the college’s Burnaby campus. The new Energy Oasis power system just happens to have … Continue reading New EV charging station at #BCIT powered by the sun→
Prepping power grids for the electric vehicle revolution As the world continues to face up to the urgent need to act decisively against climate change, the consensus among policymakers – and even senior executives in the auto industry – is increasingly coming to accept that electric vehicles (EVs) are the wave of the future. And … Continue reading Prepping power grids for the electric vehicle revolution→
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